Age of Anxiety Age of Anxiety
A spate of recent terrorism events--the bombing of a French tanker, the destruction of a nightclub in Bali, an FBI warning of a "spectacular" Al Qaeda action and the surfacing ...
Nov 21, 2002 / The Editors
Antiwar Labor Pains Antiwar Labor Pains
Unions are edging into the peace movement, but they are still minor players.
Nov 21, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Report From Gujarat Report From Gujarat
Abida Bano sits on the floor of a crowded makeshift relief building in Ahmedebad, the largest city in Gujarat, holding her 10-month-old daughter.
Nov 21, 2002 / Feature / Miranda Kennedy
The Humanitarian Temptation The Humanitarian Temptation
In 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan posed a question to the Millennium Summit of the UN: "If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on s...
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
The Silver Lining of General Rove’s Victory In the Midterm Elections The Silver Lining of General Rove’s Victory In the Midterm Elections
The talk of war has done its job.
Rove's hopes were far exceeded.
So maybe, with the voting done,
The war itself's not needed.
Nov 14, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Antiwar Movement and Its Critics The Antiwar Movement and Its Critics
Do we have an antiwar movement? We're getting there.
Nov 14, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Atop the Volcano Atop the Volcano
Gioconda Belli--poet, novelist, society belle reborn as Sandinista comrade--has written a memoir of the Nicaraguan struggle that reads like a romance--a romance with politics a...
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Anderson Tepper
Mystery in Milan Mystery in Milan
On March 16, 1972, readers in Italy and throughout the publishing world were shocked by the day's headlines.
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / André Schiffrin
Back in the USSR Back in the USSR
The study of the Soviet Union in the United States, as distinguished from random journalism, memoirs and polemics, began on the right foot.
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Abraham Brumberg
Half a Victory at the UN Half a Victory at the UN
Iraq's decision to accept the United Nations Security Council resolution, passed unanimously on November 8, sets in motion a tightly scripted plan for UN arms inspectors to ret...
Nov 14, 2002 / Phyllis Bennis