Occupation Blues Occupation Blues
While Israel's decisive victories on the battlefield and overwhelming advantage in military force are crucial to its dominance in the Middle East, perhaps just as important is ...
Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Jensen
Polanski’s Holocaust Polanski’s Holocaust
I can think of no picture of recent years, other than Roman Polanski's The Pianist, that has won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and yet stirred neither controversy nor excitement.
Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Who in 2004? Who in 2004?
With Al Gore bowing out of the 2004 presidential race, the field for Democratic contenders is wide open. In a mock people's primary, WorkingForChange is asking the public who it w...
Dec 17, 2002 / Peter Rothberg
The Kissinger Kiss-off The Kissinger Kiss-off
Perhaps Henry Kissinger will escape final (on-this-earth) judgement. No trial for war crimes. No public shunning for his lying ways. No disinvitation from <...
Dec 16, 2002 / David Corn
Gore’s Gone, But Will Dems Freshen Up? Gore’s Gone, But Will Dems Freshen Up?
Poor Al Gore, he never could get presidential politics right. Just as the former vice president and 2000 Democratic nominee for the top job was starting to take some of the bold s...
Dec 16, 2002 / John Nichols
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Recently, while doing some research into social conditions in the early twentieth century, I came across a reference to Looking Backward, written in 1888.
Dec 16, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Karen Rothmyer
Oil, Iraq and America Oil, Iraq and America
For more from Hiro on Iraq, read Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm, a short, lucid primer recently published by NationBooks.
Dec 16, 2002 / Feature / Dilip Hiro
The Conservative Imagination The Conservative Imagination
Dinesh D'Souza became a right-wing campus radical at Dartmouth in the late Carter years. His motives should be recognizable to former campus radicals of the other variety.
Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / George Packer
Beyond the AIDS Quilt Beyond the AIDS Quilt
Last year marked the "twentieth anniversary" of AIDS, a grim occasion, to say the least, that put major US newspapers in an unenviable predicament.
Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim