Two Middle East Wars Two Middle East Wars
Two Palestinian-Israeli wars have erupted in this region. One is the Palestinian nation's war for its freedom from occupation and for its right to independent statehood. Any decen...
Apr 4, 2002 / Amos Oz
Letter From Somaliland Letter From Somaliland
Muslim "fundamentalists" are often people from the striving middle class.
Apr 4, 2002 / Feature / George Packer
Folk’s Missing Link Folk’s Missing Link
I was in high school in the 1960s when I first saw Dave Van Ronk at the Gaslight, one of those little cellar clubs that used to line a Greenwich Village that now lives in myth an...
Apr 4, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
U.S. Oil Politics in the ‘Kuwait of Africa’ U.S. Oil Politics in the ‘Kuwait of Africa’
The Bush Administration, urged by the oil industry, has embraced a corrupt regime.
Apr 4, 2002 / Feature / Ken Silverstein
The Middle East Troubles: A Summary The Middle East Troubles: A Summary
They give each other tit for tat.
The next tat may get Arafat.
Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Tests, Tracking and Derailment Tests, Tracking and Derailment
As state budgets around the country are slashed to accommodate the expense of the war on terror, the pursuit of educational opportunity for all seems ever more elusive. While sta...
Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
That Old Orientalism… That Old Orientalism…
That Old Orientalism... New York City The only true characterization of Kanan Makiya in Turi Munthe's review of The Rock: A Tale of Seventh-Century Jerusalem ["Muslim ...
Apr 4, 2002 / Turi Munthe and Joseph Massad
Right Watch Right Watch
With compromise legislation stranded in Congress, the report card on the President's faith-based initiative reads "incomplete." Bush, however, has clearly succeeded on two fronts.
Apr 4, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz
Monterrey and the World Monterrey and the World
How are we to read the International Conference on Financing for Development, which recently concluded in Monterrey, Mexico? Just another United Nations talkathon?
Apr 4, 2002 / Feature / Patrick Smith
On Issues of War and Peace, Few in Congress Measure Up On Issues of War and Peace, Few in Congress Measure Up
In most western democracies, matters of war and peace are treated as serious political issues, and substantial numbers of elected officials are willing to stand and be counted for...
Apr 3, 2002 / John Nichols