Nation Topics - Kalashnikov | The Nation

How brutal raids are sabotaging the political strategy the US claims to support in Afghanistan.

Five Blackwater officials have been indicted on federal weapons violations. Given the company's track record, the charges are small change.

The past was one single catastrophe to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and acts of violence the only perceived exit.

Whatever the debate in Washington, Congressional and military scenarios for training a vast Afghan Army will never come true.

The Tiananmen Square massacre remains shrouded in myth. This eyewitness report by a Human Rights Watch observer makes the horror plain.

Two new books by African writers share many flaws with their Western predecessors.

Elias Khoury and the literature of witness.

Once geopolitical lines are redrawn, the question must be answered: who started this war?

Gangsters have guns and muscle, but a good writer always gets the last word.

As peace talks open between rebels and the government in Darfur, the question is: who speaks for whom?