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1998

Stories Published in this Year

1948 Fifty Years Ago | December 1998 (Volume: 49, Issue: 8)

The Geeks Have a Word for It

1973 Twenty-five Years Ago | December 1998 (Volume: 49, Issue: 8)

A Ford in Your Future

Dateline: Dayton | December 1998 (Volume: 49, Issue: 8)

A young news photographer launched his career in the right place at the right time

Here are 12 classic holiday movies worth seeing when you can’t sit through It’s a Wonderful Life one more time.

The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee explains why it has always frustrated presidents, and why it doesn’t have to.

Half a century after his father’s death, he struck up an extraordinary friendship with the man who shot his plane down.

Real Work in Deep Snow | December 1998 (Volume: 49, Issue: 8)

Connections with childhood, with a way of looking at life, and with a generation that remade our world

Who Was Wyatt Earp? | December 1998 (Volume: 49, Issue: 8)

From law officer to murderer to Hollywood consultant: the strange career of a man who became myth

America the Apologetic | December 1998 (Volume: 49, Issue: 8)

Should our leaders say they’re sorry about slavery? About Indians? About their personal behavior? Such questions are hardly new; public contrition has been a national preoccupation for centuries.

Fly Me to the Moon | December 1998 (Volume: 49, Issue: 8)

Reflections on the Rat Pack: Many people know what they did. This is what they meant.

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