An aggressive tabloid newspaper has had its Web site censored and could face further punishment by China's media authorities for running a photograph from the still-taboo 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement
Atlanta's East Lake community was a rough place to grow up in 1989, when murder, gangs, poverty, teen pregnancy and drug problems were common.
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was reunited with family and colleagues Wednesday, ending more than two years in U.S. military custody after Iraqi judges dropped all legal proceedings against him
Though one of Rodgers & Hammerstein's most popular shows, South Pacific has remained untouched by the revival mania sweeping Broadway - until now.
When author Norman Mailer died on Saturday of renal failure aged 84, it was as if one of the last great literary giants had been felled.
Norman Mailer, perhaps the most towering figure in 20th-century American literature, died today of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City at the age of 84, his literary executor said.
With a new book the controversial author takes on the sacred ground of the terror attacks and their aftermath
He attracts the sort of accolades that writers usually get when they're dead. But at 74 Philip Roth is very much alive and producing work at an astounding rate.
I hesitate to pick a fight with a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner like New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. On the critical issue of developing a national energy policy to lessen our consumption of imported oil, he's been early, smart, and right.
A happy, healthy birthday to Roger Ebert, America's movie critic
An aggressive tabloid newspaper has had its Web site censored and could face further punishment by China's media authorities for running a photograph from the still-taboo 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement
Atlanta's East Lake community was a rough place to grow up in 1989, when murder, gangs, poverty, teen pregnancy and drug problems were common.
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was reunited with family and colleagues Wednesday, ending more than two years in U.S. military custody after Iraqi judges dropped all legal proceedings against him
Though one of Rodgers & Hammerstein's most popular shows, South Pacific has remained untouched by the revival mania sweeping Broadway - until now.
When author Norman Mailer died on Saturday of renal failure aged 84, it was as if one of the last great literary giants had been felled.
Norman Mailer, perhaps the most towering figure in 20th-century American literature, died today of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City at the age of 84, his literary executor said.
With a new book the controversial author takes on the sacred ground of the terror attacks and their aftermath
He attracts the sort of accolades that writers usually get when they're dead. But at 74 Philip Roth is very much alive and producing work at an astounding rate.
I hesitate to pick a fight with a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner like New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. On the critical issue of developing a national energy policy to lessen our consumption of imported oil, he's been early, smart, and right.
A happy, healthy birthday to Roger Ebert, America's movie critic
Journalists have a habit of making heroes of poor managers. But high quality journalism is too vital to be reduced to a charity case
While business schools are renowned as dynamic academic institutions where eager students are fed the very latest in strategy and research, underpinning it all is many decades of thinking about the most fundamental questions of how companies work, and how they can work better.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam, whose bestselling books -- including "The Best and the Brightest," "The Breaks of the Game," "The Reckoning" and "October 1964" -- chronicled politics, history and sports, was killed in a car accident Monday. He was 73.
Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi photographer who helped the Associated Press win a Pulitzer Prize last year, is now in his sixth month in a U.S. Army prison in Iraq. He doesn't understand why he's there, and neither do his AP colleagues.
Sudan will release Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek, who was held on spying charges after entering Sudan without a visa, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday.
Osama bin Laden's top deputy halted a plot to release a poison gas in New York's subway system "only 45 days from zero hour," according to a new book excerpted Saturday on Time magazine's Web site.
A U.S. official told CNN on Monday that the CIA officer fired for leaking classified information was accused of a "pattern of behavior," including multiple contacts with more than one reporter.
The CIA has fired one of its officers for leaking classified information, an agency spokeswoman said Friday.
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When a business story breaks, you usually read all about it in the Wall Street Journal. But when the first major business story of the year broke on Jan. 3, the paper whiffed.
When a business story breaks, you usually read all about it in the Wall Street Journal. But when the first major business story of the year broke on Jan. 3, the paper whiffed. On that day its paren...
"Munich" is a masterpiece.
I've never seen the stage musical "Rent," but the movie had me at hello.
In 1930 Henry Luce created an entirely new kind of magazine ...
It turns out legendary Watergate source "Deep Throat" is a 91-year-old retiree living in Santa Rosa, California.
River metaphors run thickly and unsubtly through "Empire Falls," Richard Russo's adaptation of his own lovely novel of the same name.
Before anything else is said, let's give Philip Caputo a serious round of applause for "Acts of Faith."
Arthur Miller, the American playwright whose works "Death of a Salesman," "All My Sons" and "The Crucible" made him one of the leading lights of 20th-century theater, has died. He was 89.
Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone won't be intervening in the publication of a book that is reportedly critical of his friend, Disney CEO Michael Eisner, even though a Viacom unit is the publisher, according to a newspaper report.
This week, Tom Brokaw leaves NBC's anchor desk. In March, it'll be Dan Rather's turn to depart at CBS.
An exhibit titled "Campaigns, Conventions and Cartoons" at Boston's Suffolk University features original works by the nation's top political cartoonists.
The U.S. military is denying reports of widespread abuse of Iraqi prisoners, after an article in The New Yorker magazine cited an Army report describing abuses of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad.
Disney CEO Michael Eisner is finishing a new book about how he learned leadership and drive ... at summer camp. The book, aptly titled Camp, from Warner Books (which like FORTUNE is owned by Time W...
I've been getting letters from readers recently giving me the thumbs up on the magazine's fairly new look. Thanks a bunch, folks, but I'd like to take the time to give credit to the proper people: ...
You can hardly venture onto the campaign trail without stumbling over some candidate's education proposal. They're everywhere, like lice on a second-grader's head. But pick the nits of this issue, ...
There's a great scene in the HBO TV series The Sopranos where the son of the fictional Tony Soprano learns from the Internet that his father is not a waste-management executive, as he'd claimed, bu...
The image remodelers face a challenge. They're trying to make a curmudgeonly mayor seem cuddly and a stiff Vice President seem like a stitch. The personality makeover might be the hardest move in p...
All summer long Washington has burned over the issue of a tax cut: How big should it be? Who should get it? How will it affect the economy? The debate is certain to smolder into the fall. But in al...
For Bill Clinton, eager to have a decent legacy, and for Al Gore, eager to win his own term in the White House, this is the summer to save Medicare and to fight for a prescription-drug entitlement....
Could the national debt soon be an endangered species? Although $7.5 trillion in outstanding notes and bonds won't fade away quickly, the capital is agog with the notion that both the deficit and t...
This is the time of the political season when Republicans trim their views to the specifications of the Christian Coalition, when commentators talk of invisible armies of zealous campaigners, when ...
No patience. Not collegial. Uncomfortable in the background. Reluctant to compromise. No respect for institutional traditions. Proven inability to suffer fools. Incapable of small talk. By any meas...
Here's the political profile: A Westerner with an independent streak. A crusader against big money in politics. A brutal opponent of the tobacco industry. A loud critic of the GOP leadership for it...
The Republican Congress has rarely seen a war it didn't want to fight. Affirmative action? Straight to the front lines. Taxes? Full mobilization. The budget? Bombs away. Welfare? Ditto. But now, wi...
Steve Forbes dives into the Republican race not by flying to Des Moines or Manchester, N.H., but by announcing his candidacy on the Internet. Jesse Jackson gets out of the Democratic race not by ca...
Even as Belgrade burns, peace has broken out in the most unlikely place: Washington. For a generation, politicians have fought bitterly over defense spending. The debate was stark-- Republicans wan...
House Republicans are hopeless, literally. Also rudderless. And desperate to recover from the impeachment debacle. They're craving adult supervision. Not for nothing did they summon the onetime hea...
George W. Bush is the Republican Party's bright light, the governor of a big state, and the heir to a political tradition. He looks great on magazine covers, but the presidency isn't won on paper, ...
Listen up, Republicans. It's time to change the subject. Trying to drive Clinton from office ended up driving people away from the GOP. What you need now is less Cotton Mather and more Ronald Reaga...
The scourge of the presidential primaries--special interests that pour hundreds of volunteers into campaign headquarters, lawn-sign crews, and get-out-the-vote drives--are about to fade from the sc...
The voters didn't produce much of a House cleaning this fall, and the Senate won't look that much different in January, either. Even so, there will be a new set of leaders in the House, some new fa...
The old Congress is still haggling over impeachment and the new Congress hasn't even been sworn in, but the battle lines are already being drawn for one of the signature struggles of 1999: what to ...
The President's approval ratings are holding firm. Everybody's going to get reelected. (Well, maybe not everybody, but almost everybody.) The stock market is in trouble, but a lot of us are still l...
In his first term, Bill Clinton took risks. A crusade against the military for gay rights. A budget plan that raised taxes. A proposal to reshape the health-care system. An emotional White House me...
Remember silent Cal Coolidge? So conservative that he liked to say, "Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table." So reluctant to commit himself that he developed a trademark p...
You probably thought the New Puritanism ended with the defeat of the tobacco bill. Think again. Unfazed by the failure of the campaign against Big Tobacco, reformers are bearing down on a new targe...
The spring primaries are over, and the survivors are staggering amid the rubble. Though bowed and bloodied, they have learned some lessons: Don't carp about an economy that's roaring. Don't critici...
As usual, Washington's political elite is noisily discussing, declaiming, declaring, deploring, dissing, denying--and dissembling. Except for the Republicans, who are neither seen nor heard. In the...
Don't even think about it. Don't even think about Monica Lewinsky or Kathleen Willey. There are schools to wire, the IRS to reform, the government to reorganize. And there's the earth to televise. ...
For some time now it's been apparent that the moral cloud hanging over Bill Clinton has a lining of silver--and gold. The President is in the biggest trouble of his life, yet the Democrats are rais...
Although the Lewinsky scandal is nearly two months old, the young intern at the center of it remains an outsized planet in the Washington solar system, warping the orbits of all other celestial bod...
Bill Clinton's problems come in bunches. There's sex, or at least the allegations that he had a sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky. There's the military, in particular the troops mobilized this win...
If nothing else, the White House sex scandal has revealed the essential Clinton problem--not his personal conduct, which is still as much a matter of conjecture as fact; not his trustworthiness, wh...
President Clinton plans to submit the first balanced budget since the Nixon years. Inflation is below 2%. Unemployment is at quarter-century lows. Now it looks as if interest rates will tumble too....
All the business barometers in Washington are seemingly healthy: On Capitol Hill there's a Republican majority newly emboldened by a string of successes in the November off-year elections. In the W...
Like the old Soviet Union, the Internal Revenue Service has been transformed from an object of fear and terror to one of contempt and derision. But before it's over, Washington's war against the IR...
Seven Americans out of ten have a negative view of Newt Gingrich. His own allies nearly tossed him out in a coup. He still faces rebellion in his own caucus. He has no agenda. So what does Gingrich...
The Christian right, one of the great forces of upheaval in American politics, is itself in upheaval. Ralph Reed is gone, the child tax credit firmly established, the easy battles over. Now the mov...
There they go again. Talking about new initiatives for health insurance. Making plans to spend billions on schools. Drafting proposals to replace municipal water systems and decrepit bridges. Float...
The summer's Moneygate hearings may be the best theater Washington has to offer this year. All the classic elements are there: Greed. Envy. Ambition. Pride. Lies. Cover-ups. Also cover-ups of cover...
Trent Lott is organized and logical. He's unfailingly polite. He is the picture of calm. So why is everyone angry at him? Only a year ago the Senate Majority Leader was the symbol of a fresh Republ...
The far left and the far right are screaming at China. The liberal Ted Kennedy and the conservative Orrin Hatch are conspiring to win health care benefits for children. The Democratic President and...
Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry of the Miami Herald, whose weekly column is syndicated in more than 400 newspapers, has faced the corporate beast without flinching: For seven years he ta...
There are no campaign ads, no rallies, no debates. But that doesn't mean there isn't a campaign. There is, and the struggle is like a scene from one of those Cold War submarine thriller films--the ...
In public the talk is of reform--how the campaign-finance system must be overhauled, how the influence of the special pleaders and the special interests has to be purged. But in private the talk is...
Now that the Clinton Administration's phony budget numbers are in, and the Republicans' phony budget numbers are being prepared, the verdict is also in. Both parties are reaching the same phony con...
So what are people saying about Newt?
Remember the parlor game played out on op-ed pages and Sunday morning talk shows: Which is worse, Whitewater or Watergate? Well, that's about to become as passe as Ross Perot's plan to revitalize t...
Does this sound like an American political party you know?
Bob Dole wants to overhaul welfare. So does Bill Clinton. Clinton wants a Constitutional amendment enshrining victims' rights. So does Dole. Dole wants to cut capital gains taxes. So does Clinton. ...
Want to read all about the political conventions? This isn't the place. Sure, we'll tell you what to watch for (see O Democracy!), but those infomercials come through just as clear on your cable sy...
For sheer naked greed, endemic corruption, and over-the-top hedonism, you can't beat David McClintick's story "The Predator" (see Swindles). Even in the long history of Hollywood money scandals, th...
Here's a vernal ritual you know well: The major parties finish tidying up their presidential nominations and start preparing for the general election. Down in a Texas office building, stirrings of ...
So I've pulled off one of the toughest tricks in American political history: I've become a late bloomer at age 72. That was no picnic. But it's nothing compared with what I have ahead of me. I'm go...
For years we've been governed by generals and lawyers. We've also sent a postmaster, a cowboy adventurer, an engineer, a haberdasher, a peanut farmer, and an actor to the White House. The nation's ...
The analysts, commentators, political scientists, and historians will examine the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary in February for hints of what is happening to American politics. They m...
Bring on the presidential campaign. However serious, or silly, it may get, Fortune enters the fray particularly well armed this time, because of the brace of opinion columnists we've added to the f...
Not long ago we had a visit in our Rockefeller Center offices from Alex Mandl, recently named to become president of AT&T in 1997 and the man who oversaw its acquisition of McCaw Cellular last year...
There's a new name at the top of this issue's masthead: Norman Pearlstine has succeeded Jason McManus as editor-in-chief of Time Warner, with overall editorial responsibility for the largest magazi...
The reputations of the Big Three U.S. automakers tend to wax and wane with their financial results. When profits plunge, as they did in the early 1980s and again in the early 1990s, Wall Street and...
We're all familiar with what's been happening to college prices. My four years at Princeton (class of 1964) cost less than $12,000, while my daughter's four years at Oberlin ('94) topped $90,000. A...
Donald Barlett and James Steele want you to believe that Congress and Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton have conspired with ''the monied interests'' agains...
There's an old saying: ''Never get in a fight with a pig. You'll both get muddy, and the pig will just enjoy it.'' Nevertheless, I leap into the wallow to defend the Wall Street Journal -- in much ...
The figgy pudding is steaming on the boiler, or whatever figgy pudding is supposed to do. The goose, poor thing, has gone to that great migration in the sky, its mortal remains soon to lie burbling...
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Poet, critic, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, James Agee wrote for FORTUNE from 1932 to 1939. This marriage of poetry and journalism is from a September 1934 story on the burgeoning roadside b...
A sentence in a New York Times editorial the other day got us going again on the weird inability of the Times to look a certain proposition in the eye. Proposition: the African National Congress is...
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