Regions and Countries

Paranoia Over Pakistan Paranoia Over Pakistan

Is Pakistan really in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban?

Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Manan Ahmed

The Ethnic Split The Ethnic Split

The tenacity of the Taliban insurgency is rooted in opposition to a foreign occupation that is particularly distasteful to the Pashtuns.

Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Selig S. Harrison

A Makeshift World: On Thomas Demand A Makeshift World: On Thomas Demand

For the photographer Thomas Demand, Germany is like any other country because it is haunted by history.

Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Remember the Women? Remember the Women?

Women belong at the center of the debate over the Afghan war, not on the margins.

Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Ann Jones

Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo? Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo?

More than 5 million have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and violence against women is so common that it's been called femicide-genocide. What can we here in the U...

Oct 21, 2009 / GRITtv

Children of the Occupation Children of the Occupation

Hundreds of Palestinian children are imprisoned in Israeli jails every year. Their story, overlooked in recent media reports, tells the true cost of the occupation.

Oct 15, 2009 / Feature / Andrea D’Cruz

Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran

Tom Dine, for thirteen years head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations.

Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Helena Cobban

American Jews Rethink Israel American Jews Rethink Israel

The Jewish push for peace is surging through the grassroots, but leaders and policy-makers are still turning a deaf ear.

Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss

German Party Politics: Color Them Blurry German Party Politics: Color Them Blurry

Leftist parties in Germany offer a range of choices but no cohesive challenge to the right.

Oct 14, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Berlin Postcard Berlin Postcard

Saturday, October 3, was Reunification Day, the anniversary of the formal reuniting of East and West Germany in 1990.

 

Oct 10, 2009 / Katha Pollitt

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