Global Is as Global Does? Global Is as Global Does?
If one wants to understand what all the fuss is about as the World Trade Organization holds its ministerial conference, Ethan Kapstein's Sharing the Wealth: Workers and the World...
Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark Levinson
Microsoft’s Fatal Error Microsoft’s Fatal Error
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's factual findings in United States v. Microsoft, released November 5, spell the doom of Microsoft as we have known it.
Nov 11, 1999 / Eben Moglen
Debt: Just Forget It Debt: Just Forget It
For two decades the International Monetary Fund and its major client, the US Treasury, have made privatization, austere social budgets and market deregulation conditions of loans...
Nov 4, 1999 / Jeff Faux
George W. Bush: Calling for Philip Morris George W. Bush: Calling for Philip Morris
The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund provided research support.
Oct 21, 1999 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
Labor’s Labors Labor’s Labors
Marking the fourth year of president John Sweeney's tenure, the 13-million-member AFL-CIO had much to celebrate at its biennial convention in Los Angeles in mid-October.
Oct 14, 1999 / The Editors
Thurow’s Infonomics Thurow’s Infonomics
We are entering, techno-boosters breathlessly proclaim, a "third industrial revolution," that of the "knowledge-based" or "new" economy.
Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert J. Crawford
Is the Boston Tea Party Over? Is the Boston Tea Party Over?
Anyone who has led a discussion on the economy or trade or globalization in this country has faced the question, Should I buy American? Sounds simple enough.
Oct 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Cavanagh
CBS-Viacom Nuptials CBS-Viacom Nuptials
An abbreviated version of this article appeared in the October 4, 1999 issue.
Sep 16, 1999 / Mark Crispin Miller
Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor
Almost three times as many people, most of them in tropical countries of the Third World, die of preventable, curable diseases as die of AIDS.
Jul 1, 1999 / Feature / Ken Silverstein
America’s Disappeared America’s Disappeared
Nearly three years after the inauguration of welfare reform, Congress and the Clinton Administration would do well to reflect upon the admonition of Dorothy Day, the founder of t...
Jun 24, 1999 / Paul Wellstone