Laundering Yeltsin

The Russian Foreign Minister says it's an American plot to keep Russia weak. The head of the KGB-successor agency offers that same conviction in a formal briefing to President Boris Yeltsin.

Matt Bivens

The Journal’s Russia Scandal

Just before Christmas in 1997, as a tumultuous stock-market crisis ravaged emerging markets in every corner of the globe, readers of the Wall Street Journal were treated to some good news:

Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames

Robbing Russia

Finally, the rampant corruption at the core of Russia's post-Communist transformation is front-page news.

the Editors

CBS-Viacom Nuptials

An abbreviated version of this article appeared in the October 4, 1999 issue.

Mark Crispin Miller

Ending Timor’s Ordeal

Indonesia's scorched-earth compliance with international pressure on East Timor has left Dili, the capital, in ruins, displaced some 100,000 people to refugee camps under the control of the bruta

the Editors

Polymaritally Perverse

I've always vowed I would never be one of those people--and you know who you are!--who cancel their ACLU membership in a fit of pique over a single issue.

Katha Pollitt

George W. Bush’s Education Plan

A public school whose students don't test well
Would lose some funds unless its score improves.
If cutting funds won't help the kids advance,

Calvin Trillin

Inherit an Ill Wind

Way down in Georgia last month, REM lead singer Michael Stipe paused in the middle of a solo during a rock concert because he had Kansas on his mind.

Larry Witham and Edward Larson

Decolonizing the Mind

As Hawaii's first American century comes to an end, marking grim anniversaries of overthrow and forced annexation by the United States, a groundswell for Native Hawaiian sovereignty continues to

Mindy Pennybacker

Adults Only

Conventional wisdom has it that Americans stopped attending foreign films as soon as the domestic ones started featuring bare breasts. Convention, as usual, is too simple.

Stuart Klawans

Pacifica/Bellicosica

Our coverage of the situation at KPFA in San Francisco--Marc Cooper's "Pacifica on the Brink" (Aug.