World

The Stench of Corruption The Stench of Corruption

Letter From Europe

Dec 15, 1994 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Why Say No? Why Say No?

Alex on the pathetic handshake between Rabin and Arafat.

Oct 4, 1994 / Alexander Cockburn

The Continent Divided The Continent Divided

Letter From Europe

Jan 8, 1993 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Kosovo Waits Kosovo Waits

Branko Brudar smiles and tells the new war joke, while carefully placing the Turkish coffee pot on the small office hot plate. "Until when will the Serbs and Croats fight?" goes...

Jan 8, 1993 / Mariana Katzarova

The Rebellion in Israel and the Territories The Rebellion in Israel and the Territories

The usual regulatory mechanisms of the mainstream U.S. media (aim: exclusion of troubling or potentially disruptive information, narcosis of population) processed the turmoil in th...

Jan 16, 1988 / Alexander Cockburn

The Right’s Chicago Trial The Right’s Chicago Trial

Alex on Oliver North’s “fascism with a human face” and the mysterious case of Ralph the Lobster. 

Aug 1, 1987 / Alexander Cockburn

Gore Vidal

Requiem for the American Empire Requiem for the American Empire

“Empires are restless organisms. They must constantly renew themselves; should an empire start leaking energy, it will die.”

Jan 11, 1986 / Gore Vidal

Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2007.

The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen

Letter From Europe

Sep 7, 1985 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Death of a Legendary Hero Death of a Legendary Hero

The riots of 1968 are bound to change the way that history views the political career of Charles de Gaulle.

Nov 30, 1970 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Rosa Luxemburg grave in Berlin

A Spartacan Manifesto A Spartacan Manifesto

Shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, The Nation published the manifesto of the German Spartacists, a group the pair co-founded to incite a Marxist revol...

Mar 8, 1919 / Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Franz Mehring

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