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* * * 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
The ‘Shame’ Game The ‘Shame’ Game
When we last visited New York Times foreign affairs pundit Thomas Friedman during last year's Seattle protests, he was attacking critics of the antidemocratic World Trade Organiz...
Apr 20, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
The American Ascendancy The American Ascendancy
The turn of the millennium provided yet another occasion to celebrate a triumphant American Century.
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Bruce Cumings
Cheney Was a Gusher Deal for Halliburton Cheney Was a Gusher Deal for Halliburton
Let's not begrudge Dick Cheney his $36 million income last year. Sure, it dwarfs the puny $744,682 reported by the President, but George W. Bush represents old money, and he know...
Apr 17, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Time to Rein in Global Finance Time to Rein in Global Finance
The financial crisis that collapsed Asian economies in mid-1997 and then bounced around the world was a distant sideshow to most Americans until it reached Wall Street.
Apr 5, 2000 / Feature / William Greider
Jubilee 2000: Paying Our Debts Jubilee 2000: Paying Our Debts
A massive natural disaster reminds us why people worldwide have been engaged by the issue of debt relief.
Apr 5, 2000 / Feature / Robert W. Edgar
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
Still With Us Still With Us
The editors of The New York Times Magazine had a good idea recently.
Apr 5, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Microsoft: Judgment Day Microsoft: Judgment Day
Despite all the palaver, the denouement came quickly.
Apr 5, 2000 / Eben Moglen
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.