Jesse ‘The Gov’ Ventura Jesse ‘The Gov’ Ventura
On January 4, 1999, Jesse Ventura will be sworn in as the new governor of Minnesota amid a media deluge not seen since the state hosted the Super Bowl.
Dec 17, 1998 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
Close, But No Cigar Close, But No Cigar
On August 20 last, President Clinton personally ordered the leveling of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant on the outskirts of Khartoum.
Oct 5, 1998 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Social (In-)Security Social (In-)Security
What precisely about the current Social Security "reform" debate makes it so hateful and repellent?
May 14, 1998 / The Editors
May in December May in December
It's not May in December. The ten days that shook the Chirac government are not a repetition of the great rising of students and workers that precipitated the fall of Gen. Charles ...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Mitterrand: Middle of the Journey Mitterrand: Middle of the Journey
Letter From Europe
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
A Specter Is Haunting Eurocommunism A Specter Is Haunting Eurocommunism
Is Europe, like Britain, swinging to the right? Whatever the answer, the State Department need not be haunted, for the time being, by the ghost of Eurocommunism.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Terror and the Sense of Justice Terror and the Sense of Justice
An irony emerges from reading the sickening details of the terrorist slaughter in Israel. It is that Menahem Begin, the symbol of Israeli outrage and bereavement, first achieved pr...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Aryeh Neier
Braving Bush’s New World Order Braving Bush’s New World Order
Letter From Europe
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Unto Every One That Hath Unto Every One That Hath
When early Socialists dreamt of a society of equals, they could not even imagine a society with the productive capacities of America today. And yet equality looms more distant than...
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer