Welfare Movement Rises Welfare Movement Rises
The federal law that gave us "welfare reform" expires in September 2002.
Apr 20, 2000 / Frances Fox Piven
Waging War in Space Waging War in Space
"Master of Space"--a motto of the United States Space Command, a joint Air Force, Army and Navy command set up by the Pentagon in 1985--says it all.
Dec 9, 1999 / Karl Grossman and Judith Long
Public Citizen No.1 Public Citizen No.1
CORRECTION (from the Dec. 27 issue): In Micah L. Sifry's "Public Citizen No. 1" [Dec. 20], Carl Mayer, although he is among those urging Nader to run, was incorrectly identified as...
Dec 2, 1999 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
Buchanan-Fulani: New Team? Buchanan-Fulani: New Team?
When Pat Buchanan showed up to tout his new book on Tim Russert's CNBC show, Russert asked about his recent lunch date with Lenora Fulani, former presidential candidate of the New ...
Oct 14, 1999 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro
You’re Not Entitled! You’re Not Entitled!
According to the 1996 welfare law, Gail Aska was a model recipient.
Oct 7, 1999 / Feature / Karen Houppert
On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate
Buchanan hints he's leaving.
The GOP says, "Stay!"
They fear that he'd be draining
The wacko vote away.
Sep 9, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Candid in Camera Candid in Camera
It all began in the heat of the summer of 1940. Hitler was at his peak in Europe. France had been defeated.
Sep 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gore Vidal
Think Globally, Run Locally Think Globally, Run Locally
In the summer of 1997 Amory Houghton, the "moderate" six-term Republican Congressman who represents my home county in upstate New York, cast a crucial vote against the "no arms t...
Aug 5, 1999 / Feature / Caleb Rossiter
Gloves Off in the Garden State Gloves Off in the Garden State
The newly regilded dome of Trenton's state capitol may be shimmering under the intense summer sun, but if New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman's entourage is sweating bulle...
Aug 5, 1999 / Feature / Doug Ireland
Social Security for Women Social Security for Women
Despite the rosy projections and numerical alchemy that proponents employ to push their cause, privatizing Social Security won't build much wealth for women, and it will leave el...
Jul 1, 1999 / Trudy Lieberman