School Colors School Colors

How can we respond most effectively to right-wing assaults on the premises of public education?

Amy Wilkins: The way that you deal with th

May 18, 2000 / Feature / Luis Garden Acosta, Lisa Delpit, Harold Levy, Adam Urbanski, Deborah Wei, Amy Wilkins, and Herbert Kohl

Giving Charter Schools a Chance Giving Charter Schools a Chance

Ask a supporter of charter schools whether that vogue new concept holds promise for inner-city children.

May 18, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Schorr

Memory Lapses From Ted Olson Memory Lapses From Ted Olson

Remember when Hillary Clinton dared suggest that a vast right-wing conspiracy was behind the campaign to destroy her husband's presidency? Well, the troubles besetting the nomina...

May 15, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Underground Against the Taliban Underground Against the Taliban

The atrocities of the Afghan Taliban toward women have been widely reported in the Western press: women banned from work; forbidden to leave their homes unless shrouded in the bu...

May 11, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

The NRA Wants You The NRA Wants You

Research assistance was provided by the Elections 2000 Fund of the Nation Institute.

May 11, 2000 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

Antitrust & the Media–I Antitrust & the Media–I

This spring the topic of antitrust returned to the headlines after a long absence as the government pursued and won (for the time being) its case against Microsoft and, in a more...

May 3, 2000 / Robert W. McChesney

Back to the Forward Back to the Forward

I start to worry whenever the Wall Street Journal editorial page cites theliberalNewRepublic for support.

May 3, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

The Details of Life The Details of Life

This article is adapted from Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (Crown).

May 3, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kozol

Copyright as Censorship Copyright as Censorship

The British government, increasingly desperate to silence a former MI5 intelligence officer who has been campaigning to expose government misconduct, has sued him and a London ne...

May 3, 2000 / Feature / Jon Wiener

Hip-Hop Politics on Campus Hip-Hop Politics on Campus

"You have no idea how much love I got for this," says David Jamil Muhammad, referring to his role as a student organizer of "Hip-Hop Generation--Hip-Hop as a Movement." The confe...

Apr 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple