South Asia at the Brink South Asia at the Brink
India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who gathered here with the leaders of the other five South Asian countries for a summit meeting ...
Jan 10, 2002 / Editorial / Kanak Mani Dixit
What Price Stimulus? What Price Stimulus?
"Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes," George W. Bush cryptically proclaimed. The press dutifully translated what he really meant, but few commented on the tasteless...
Jan 10, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
Making Money on Terror Making Money on Terror
Four months after September 11, Osama bin Laden is on the run and the Pentagon is riding high. Our warmaker in chief, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, has been described by t...
Jan 10, 2002 / Editorial / William D. Hartung
In Fact… In Fact…
ENRON: WHERE DOES THE BUCK STOP? The Justice Department and several Congressional committees are starting to look under the Enron rock. Representative Henry Waxman has been shoo...
Jan 10, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
Egyptian Justice, US-Style Egyptian Justice, US-Style
President Hosni Mubarak is quite happy that the United States has decided to try civilian terrorist suspects in military courts. For ten years, Egypt has been taking fire from the ...
Jan 10, 2002 / Editorial / Steve Negus
Tattletales for an Open Society Tattletales for an Open Society
"Former Yankee virtues, common sense, scepticism if not suspicion of authority, a belief in the mastery of the future, have been driven underground.
Jan 10, 2002 / Editorial / Various Contributors
Tattletales for an Open Society Tattletales for an Open Society
Read Senator Joe Lieberman's letter to ACTA. Read comments from other new members of Tattletales for an Open Society. Read Eric Scigliano's Naming-and un-naming-Names.
Jan 9, 2002 / Editorial / Martin J. Sherwin
Chaos in Argentina Chaos in Argentina
The violent popular uprising in Argentina and abrupt collapse of its government should be understood as a warning bell, reminding the governing elites how unstable--and unjust--t...
Jan 3, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors
Morocco’s Dirty War Morocco’s Dirty War
One country that has escaped the current scrutiny of US backing for Arab dictatorships is Morocco, in part because its human rights situation has improved over the past decade. B...
Jan 3, 2002 / Editorial / Eric Goldstein
Primary Predicament Primary Predicament
With little public notice and no serious debate inside the party, Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe and his allies have hatched a plan to radically alter the...
Jan 3, 2002 / Editorial / John Nichols