World

Does President Bush Have the Guts to Abandon a Bad Idea? Does President Bush Have the Guts to Abandon a Bad Idea?

Despite early stumbles, George W. Bush has the potential to be an effective foreign policy president. But his willingness to back off from the "Star Wars" missile defense, which ...

Jun 19, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook

It's difficult to get over the idea that we failed Timothy McVeigh and that his execution fails us all. How deceptive a finale it is that leaves history neatly packaged in the ce...

Jun 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Southern Lebanon Waits Southern Lebanon Waits

The final confrontation between Hezbollah and Israeli troops will stand alongside Anwar Sadat's 1977 arrival in Jerusalem and the extraordinary handshake (fatal for Yitzhak Rab...

Jun 8, 2000 / Robert Fisk

Exacting ‘the Price of Liberty…’ Exacting ‘the Price of Liberty…’

Generals and admirals often tell us that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, but they sure don't appreciate being on its business end.

Jun 1, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

Janey Got Her Gun Janey Got Her Gun

Michael Kimmel served as the Justice Department's expert witness on gender issues in the VMI and Citadel litigation.

Jun 1, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kimmel

How We Made the Balkans How We Made the Balkans

When the Pulitzer prizes were announced in April, surprisingly none of the hundreds of journalists covering the war in the Balkans last year were among the winners.

May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder

Sartre’s Roads to Freedom Sartre’s Roads to Freedom

Asked where he was coming from, my friend's son replied, “From the demo against the death of Sartre.” It was April 19, 1980, and the definition fitted perfectly…

May 18, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

China and Globalism China and Globalism

The politics of trade will always contrive to decide the most fateful questions in private while leaving public debate to chew over narrow, derivative issues.

May 18, 2000 / William Greider

The Battle of Vieques The Battle of Vieques

Puerto Ricans’ opposition to the Navy’s suffocating presence had been brewing long before the sit-in.

May 11, 2000 / Ed Morales

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

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