Media Matters Media Matters
"Politics and language," explains the dust jacket on the latest edition of Safire's New Political Dictionary, are "William Safire's two great and abiding interests." True, but to...
Jun 3, 1999 / Column / David Sarasohn
The Net That Binds The Net That Binds
This article is adapted from Andrew L. Shapiro's book about the politics of the Internet, The Control Revolution (PublicAffairs/Century Foundation). For more information visit www....
Jun 3, 1999 / Feature / Andrew L. Shapiro
Hot-Wiring High School Hot-Wiring High School
The International Student Activism Alliance has been run by and for high school students since its founding in 1996. Read this report by Liza Featherstone, originally published in ...
Jun 3, 1999 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Master of All He Surveys Master of All He Surveys
As the presidential election of 1996 got under way, the press began to report that Bill Clinton's campaign strategy was heavily influenced by the advice of a shadowy figure who h...
Jun 3, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Mouth of the Dying Day Mouth of the Dying Day
W.H. Auden observed that biographies "are always superfluous and usually in bad taste," but Edward Mendelson's book on him, Later Auden, is neither.
Jun 3, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Grace Schulman
A Greek Bearing Gifts A Greek Bearing Gifts
Before I ask you to see Eternity and a Day, I'd better explain something about its director and co-screenwriter, Theo Angelopoulos.
Jun 3, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Rolling Thunder: the Rerun Rolling Thunder: the Rerun
People concerned about the US-led NATO war against Yugoslavia find much to reflect upon in the Vietnam experience.
May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney
Post-Littleton Gun Vote in the Senate Post-Littleton Gun Vote in the Senate
When guns became the issue of the day,
Republicans, as is their custom, put
Their party right behind the NRA,
And shot themselves quite badly in the foot.
May 27, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Bronx Tale A Bronx Tale
You're 19, single, on welfare. You breast-feed your baby because you know breast is best. When the baby fails to gain weight, your mother says not to worry, you were even smaller...
May 27, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Tiananmen Plus Ten Tiananmen Plus Ten
On May 10, as tens of thousands of students rallied here for the third day of government-approved protests against NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, magazine edi...
May 27, 1999 / Sophie Beach