West and East West and East
In Maastricht twelve members of the European Community reached another stage on the road toward some form of union, notably with the pledge to introduce a common currency, the ecu…
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Dawn in Poland Dawn in Poland
Dual power, Lenin wrote, cannot last long. But just how long?
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Rouge et Noir Rouge et Noir
Were there half a million or a million people marching in the Parisian drizzle on January 16? No one can say.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Mitterrand Redux Mitterrand Redux
Mitterrand can make it. He is, undoubtedly, the winner of the first round in the French presidential election.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Boris the Brief? Boris the Brief?
Forced out of office and deliberately humiliated, Mikhail Gorbachev nevertheless left the historical stage with the dignity of an actor who was aware of the crucial part he had pla...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Very Civil Disobedience Very Civil Disobedience
Whatever the ultimate effect last week's mammoth disarmament rally in New York City will have on the prospects for world peace, it did much to rehabilitate the idea of peaceful p...
Jan 2, 1998 / The Editors
May in December May in December
It's not May in December. The ten days that shook the Chirac government are not a repetition of the great rising of students and workers that precipitated the fall of Gen. Charles ...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Only a Beginning… Only a Beginning…
Nothing is over but the counting and not even that.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Europe Notebook Europe Notebook
For the Western press the Chernobyl disaster was splendid copy, both sensational and anti-Soviet.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Silent Reproach Silent Reproach
Some events carry an exceptional symbolic charge.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer