Mitterrand Le Petit Mitterrand Le Petit
The longest reign in the history of the French Republic is coming to an end, possibly a premature one, with a sense of drama.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Where’s the Revolution? Where’s the Revolution?
When I came out in Boston in the mid-1970s, I had no way of knowing that the lesbian and gay movement I was discovering was in many ways unique.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Barbara Smith
Honor the Man–and the Movement Honor the Man–and the Movement
Hardly had the Nobel Peace Prize committee announced that Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was its 1983 laureate but President Reagan and other cold warriors began praising the choice...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
An Optimistic Tragedy? An Optimistic Tragedy?
For years, if they wished to be honest, observers of the Soviet Union had to work like archeologists, digging below the political surface to discover real social changes takin...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Gorbachev–Two Steps Backward? Gorbachev–Two Steps Backward?
"Comrade democrats--in the widest meaning of this word--you have scattered. The reformers have gone to ground. Dictatorship is coming....
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Stink of Money The Stink of Money
Los Angeles is not the only place perturbing the sermons of the preachers of history's end and capitalism's eternal youth.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Ex-Communists and Rough Beasts Ex-Communists and Rough Beasts
Capitalist euphoria proved short-lived in Europe. Five years ago we witnessed the collapse of the post-Stalinist empire, which folded with unexpected ease.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Death of a Collaborator Death of a Collaborator
Early on the morning of June 8, a messenger arrived at an apartment in one of the poshest districts of Paris bearing documents to be signed by a former high-level government offi...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Terror and the Sense of Justice Terror and the Sense of Justice
An irony emerges from reading the sickening details of the terrorist slaughter in Israel. It is that Menahem Begin, the symbol of Israeli outrage and bereavement, first achieved pr...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Aryeh Neier
America and the Simpson Trial America and the Simpson Trial
This article originally appeared in the March 13, 1995 issue.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams