Theme Wars 2000 Theme Wars 2000
It was yet another Washington confab where Democrats gathered in a hotel to ponder their prospects.
Jan 28, 1999 / Feature / David Corn
The Cost of an Afghan ‘Victory’ The Cost of an Afghan ‘Victory’
Ten years ago, on February 15, 1989, as the last of the 115,000 Soviet soldiers crossed over from Afghanistan into Soviet Tajikistan, there was quiet celebration in Washington ...
Jan 28, 1999 / Feature / Dilip Hiro
The Real Threat to Social Security The Real Threat to Social Security
Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.
Jan 21, 1999 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss
Democrats Face the Future Democrats Face the Future
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating," Winston Churchill wrote in his memoir of the Boer War, "as to be shot at without result." Surely this accounts for the ebullience of Cong...
Jan 21, 1999 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage
Justice Over-Decorated Is Justice Denied Justice Over-Decorated Is Justice Denied
Chief Justice Rehnquist now presides.
He rules the chamber that decides
If Clinton should remain or go.
This role's important, that we know.
Jan 21, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
My Lost Weekend My Lost Weekend
By the time we got to firing off the water-cooled, tripod-mounted, 30-caliber machine gun at the NRA-run Ben Avery gun range a half-hour north of here on the Saturday after ...
Jan 14, 1999 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Republic on Trial Republic on Trial
The most astonishing thing about the farcical and disgraceful--but extremely dangerous--impeachment proceedings in Washington is that they are happening at all. The country is at p...
Jan 14, 1999 / Jonathan Schell
One Lesson of the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton One Lesson of the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton
The middle names we have are, as a rule,
Obscure, pretentious, odd or just not cool.
So someone named John Bloomingblaise McGill
Jan 14, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The People vs. Larry Flynt? The People vs. Larry Flynt?
I didn't realize how much I was counting on Larry Flynt until I noticed I had spent Monday evening trying to find on the Web or TV a report of the much-anticipated news conf...
Jan 14, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Inaugurals Inaugurals
Twenty-six years ago, when the world was young, Jerry Brown began his reign in Sacramento and, even though I wrote some rude things about him at the time, life was certainly ...
Jan 7, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn