Raising a Ruckus: Students Take the Bus to DC Raising a Ruckus: Students Take the Bus to DC
Students heading for DC are bringing more than a toothbrush and a change of underwear.
Apr 5, 2000 / Feature / Jane Spencer
Free Trade and the ‘Starving Child’ Defense Free Trade and the ‘Starving Child’ Defense
Ajit Singh
Ajit Singh, who graduated from Punjab University and obtained his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, is professor of economics at Cambridge University.
Apr 5, 2000 / Feature / Various Contributors
Her Own Lambs and Falcons Her Own Lambs and Falcons
It really is about time we had the letters of Rebecca West.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Georgette Fleischer
Passages to India Passages to India
In the early 1920s, E.M.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar
Decline of the West Decline of the West
"I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided," said Sam Shepard, explaining his motivation for writing True West. "It's a real thing, double nature.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe
He Took a Village He Took a Village
In the role of New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell--source and subject alike of Joe Gould's Secret--Stanley Tucci adopts the hesitant drawl of a displaced Southern aristocrat, who ...
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Heck With That Global Warming Stuff The Heck With That Global Warming Stuff
Time to ease up on George W. So what that he tore up the Kyoto agreement, which had been painstakingly hammered out among 100 nations in an attempt to control global warming. B...
Apr 3, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Pakistan on the Brink Pakistan on the Brink
Pakistan today is a complete mess, a sad example of what can happen when a once-favored "frontline state" is reduced to the status of a cold war orphan.
Who Is Putin? Who Is Putin?
Russia's third presidential election, on March 26, should have been historic--the first democratic transfer of Kremlin power via the ballot box.
Mar 30, 2000 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
John McCain Is Welcomed Back to the Senate John McCain Is Welcomed Back to the Senate
Well, John, it's nice to have you back again.
Your colleagues all paid close attention when
You cast all those aspersions on this house.
Mar 30, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin