Bush: Marlboro’s Man Bush: Marlboro’s Man
While the differences between George W. Bush and Al Gore may still be coming into focus for many Americans in the final weeks before the election, one is already stark. On tobacc...
Oct 19, 2000 / Dan Zegart
The Student Movement Comes of Age The Student Movement Comes of Age
Activists have achieved power. Now they need to figure out how to use it.
Sep 28, 2000 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
In Business We Trust In Business We Trust
The Supreme Court once championed antitrust laws as valued tools to limit corporate power and to promote the autonomy, diversity and economic rights of people and firms without pow...
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Eleanor Fox
Chase’s Historical Ledger Chase’s Historical Ledger
Chase should immediately open its archives to slavery researchers.
Sep 25, 2000 / John S. Friedman
Brands ‘R’ Us? Brands ‘R’ Us?
Jeremy Rifkin wants to rock the world of the jaded reader: He predicts that we're entering a completely new--the final--stage of capitalism.
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jane Slaughter
Corporate Responsibility Corporate Responsibility
So Ford now says the SUV
Is very bad for you and me.
It slurps gas to a fare-thee-well,
And makes the earth as hot as hell.
Its weight means any car it hits
May 18, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
What Monsanto Knew What Monsanto Knew
In a small brick house strung year-round with Christmas lights, behind curtains made of flowered sheets, Jeremiah Smith is listening to his favorite preacher on the radio.
May 11, 2000 / Feature / Nancy Beiles
Antitrust & the Media–I Antitrust & the Media–I
This spring the topic of antitrust returned to the headlines after a long absence as the government pursued and won (for the time being) its case against Microsoft and, in a more...
May 3, 2000 / Robert W. McChesney
Extra! Extra! Read Less About It Extra! Extra! Read Less About It
* * * When legendary media critic A.J. Liebling issued that warning some decades ago about the corrosive effect of media monopolies on the First Amendment, media ownership...
Apr 24, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Microsoft: Judgment Day Microsoft: Judgment Day
Despite all the palaver, the denouement came quickly.
Apr 5, 2000 / Eben Moglen