The United States Makes a Conditional Apology to China The United States Makes a Conditional Apology to China
A pity that our missiles went astray--
The kind of act we'd make a tort of.
Sincerely, USA would like to say
We're really very sorry, sort of.
May 13, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Showdown in Moscow Showdown in Moscow
By dismissing Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and warning that Russia may pull out of the Yugoslav peace talks, Boris Yeltsin has shown again that he will do almost anything to ...
May 13, 1999 / The Editors
License to Kill in Timor License to Kill in Timor
Allan Nairn was banned from Indonesia and East Timor as a "threat to national security" after he survived the Dili massacre of 1991. Arrested and deported last year and threatened ...
May 13, 1999 / Allan Nairn
Protest the War Protest the War
It's time to move from dissent to action: to quickly and vigorously protest the Kosovo war.
May 13, 1999 / The Editors
Humanitarian, All Too Humanitarian Humanitarian, All Too Humanitarian
Masses of people driven from their homes, murdered, maimed, raped, sent into panicked flight.
May 13, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Palestinians on Hold Palestinians on Hold
"Arafat gave in to our pressure," was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's typically self-promoting response to the PLO's recent decision not to declare a Palestinian stat...
May 6, 1999 / Graham Usher
Israel Diary Israel Diary
March 28: SECURITY (I)
At moments, I wonder whether we've left America.
May 6, 1999 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
Ulster Veto, Ulster Terror Ulster Veto, Ulster Terror
If Bill Clinton finds time to look up from the debacle of NATO's bombing of Serbia, he will find that Protestant holdouts in Northern Ireland are on the verge of denying him the ...
May 6, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Liberals’ Folly The Liberals’ Folly
Liberals in the Democratic Party should withdraw their support for the Kosovo war. So should the Democratic Party.
May 6, 1999 / Tom Hayden
Lovestone’s Thin Red Line Lovestone’s Thin Red Line
Jay Lovestone is not only one of the oddest characters in the history of the American left but easily its most slippery.
May 6, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle