The American Ascendancy The American Ascendancy
The turn of the millennium provided yet another occasion to celebrate a triumphant American Century.
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Bruce Cumings
A Green Foreign Policy A Green Foreign Policy
The power of the market, and of the giant corporations that dominate it, is the overriding political fact of our time.
Apr 20, 2000 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
History and the Holocaust History and the Holocaust
"This trial," said the plaintiff, David Irving, "is not really about what happened in the Holocaust." Opposing counsel agreed: "The essence of the case is Mr.
Apr 13, 2000 / D.D. Guttenplan
Time to Rein in Global Finance Time to Rein in Global Finance
The financial crisis that collapsed Asian economies in mid-1997 and then bounced around the world was a distant sideshow to most Americans until it reached Wall Street.
Apr 5, 2000 / Feature / William Greider
Extending the Elián González Policy Extending the Elián González Policy
Yes, any Cuban kid would thrive right here.
At Disney World he'd surely have a ball.
And over there he lacks what we revere.
So maybe we should simply snatch them all.
Apr 5, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Passages to India Passages to India
In the early 1920s, E.M.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar
Pakistan on the Brink Pakistan on the Brink
Pakistan today is a complete mess, a sad example of what can happen when a once-favored "frontline state" is reduced to the status of a cold war orphan.
Who Is Putin? Who Is Putin?
Russia's third presidential election, on March 26, should have been historic--the first democratic transfer of Kremlin power via the ballot box.
Mar 30, 2000 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Kosovo on Hold Kosovo on Hold
Clouds of blackbirds still do go wheeling and shrieking above Kosovo Polje, the bleak and windy site of the great Turkish victory over Serbia (and Albania) in 1389.
Mar 30, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Kosovo Revisited Kosovo Revisited
During my recent visit to Kosovo two strong impressions emerged. The first is that the curse of Serbian oppression has been definitively lifted from the majority-Albanian populat...
Mar 22, 2000 / Richard Falk