The Pardoner’s Tale The Pardoner’s Tale
During his closing weeks in office, Bill Clinton refused a plea, signed by many leading lawyers and civil libertarians, that he declare a moratorium on capital punishment. The mora...
Mar 1, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Retour du Socialisme? Retour du Socialisme?
Paris Will Paris become the first large city in France (indeed, the first major city or national capital anywhere in the world) to elect an openly gay candidate as mayor--the S...
Mar 1, 2001 / Frédéric Martel
Plan Colombia Plan Colombia
Wrong issue, wrong enemy, wrong country.
Mar 1, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Bush’s Nuclear Revival Bush’s Nuclear Revival
George W. Bush's mid-February directive ordering the Pentagon to review and restructure the US nuclear arsenal is a wake-up call for supporters of arms control and disarmament....
Feb 23, 2001 / William D. Hartung
Salter’s Flight Path Salter’s Flight Path
We have many male authors known for loving women, fewer known for loving men. Love that is not overtly homoerotic--resolutely heterosexual, in fact--can take on an intimacy and pu...
Feb 23, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eric Weinberger
Confronting Iraq Confronting Iraq
George W. Bush's description of the US-British bombing of Iraq as a "routine mission" unwittingly summed up the mechanical nature of the US-British air operations in Iraq, which...
Feb 23, 2001 / The Editors
Fields of Thorns in Palestine Fields of Thorns in Palestine
The Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip began in late September 2000 as a wave of popular protest against Ariel Sharon’s belligerent incursion into Jerusalem’s sac...
Feb 22, 2001 / Feature / Mouin Rabbani
Vietnam: ‘Quagmire’ Quackery Vietnam: ‘Quagmire’ Quackery
Another book on the Vietnam War? Yes, and one well worth our attention. Enough time has now passed that A.J. Langguth's Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 serves not only as a wonder...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / David Rudenstine
Chile and the End of Pinochet Chile and the End of Pinochet
The former dictator is charged at last, and human rights are the talk of the nation.
Feb 8, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Bush Medicine for Africa Bush Medicine for Africa
The Bush Administration's health policies for Africa basically amount to the moral equivalent of the death penalty for 25 million people.
Feb 8, 2001 / Salih Booker