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January 20, 2000
‘The First Environmentalists’
For thirty years, since the publication of Silent Spring and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the growth of the environmental movement has been fueled with sorrow for the decimation o
Mindy Pennybacker
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January 6, 2000
Brownout at School
The Color of School Reform represents the kind of scholarship that by rights should influence the design of smart policy.
David Kirp
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December 2, 1999
Stop-Time in the Levant
It is remarkable to what extent almost anything having to do with the Middle East in this country--be it political, cultural, historical or even personal--is permeated by the triumphalist vision
Ammiel Alcalay
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November 4, 1999
The ‘Right’ Books and Big Ideas
Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and her husband, Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom, would like to thank the John M.
Eric Alterman
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October 28, 1999
The Life of a Black Man
A stay of execution was issued October 26.
Angela Y. Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker
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October 28, 1999
Turning Back the Clock On Voting Rights
Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute and the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Ron Nixon
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September 23, 1999
Ragtime, My Time
As the youngest of five girls and two boys growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, I was raised to believe that if I worked hard, was a good person and always told the truth, the world would be my oyster
Alton Fitzgerald White
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September 9, 1999
A Haunted Journey
After the war life will begin to stir once again, but we won't be here, we will have vanished just as the Aztecs have vanished.
Daniel Singer
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August 19, 1999
Saving History From the Shredder
They call him "the world's most famous bank guard": Christoph Meili, the former night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich who in 1997 rescued from the shredder documents that desc
Jon Wiener
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August 19, 1999
Living La Vida ‘Loca’
Few Latino writers have challenged homophobia and machismo as fiercely as Jaime Manrique.
George De Stefano