Reading Arendt in Caracas Reading Arendt in Caracas
A student movement influenced by Hannah Arendt is emerging in Venezuela. What do they think of the Bolivarian Revolution?
Aug 17, 2007 / Feature / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Sarko’s Gift to the Wealthy Sarko’s Gift to the Wealthy
France's new president has launched an assault on the welfare state.
Aug 15, 2007 / Feature / Jordan Stancil
Israel’s Intrepid Peacemakers Israel’s Intrepid Peacemakers
Their numbers are dwindling, they're low on money and face potential violence and certain prosecution. But Israeli anarchists continue to stand with embattled Palestinians.
Jul 30, 2007 / Feature / Neve Gordon
I’m Not the Man I Used to Be I’m Not the Man I Used to Be
The reasons for Günter Grass's silence about his membership in the Waffen SS remain safely hidden in his new memoir.
Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andreas Huyssen
Red Mosque: Endgame for Musharraf? Red Mosque: Endgame for Musharraf?
In the violent aftermath of the storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque, the military-mullah alliance that kept Pervez Musharraf in power is unraveling, the Taliban is ascendant, and ho...
Jul 19, 2007 / Feature / Graham Usher
Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories
Almost entirely under the media radar, unemployed workers here are taking over bankrupt businesses and reopening them under democratic management.
Jul 16, 2007 / Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis
Artists Pursue the Disappeared Artists Pursue the Disappeared
With greater efficiency than the slow efforts for truth and justice, a traveling art exhibition bears witness to the victims of Argentina's "dirty war."
Jul 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Marian Schlotterbeck
Bush’s Pakistan Paradox Bush’s Pakistan Paradox
He invaded Iraq, which had no connection to WMDs or terrorist threats against the US, while coddling the military junta in Pakistan, which was guilty on both counts. Go figure.
Jul 11, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Lebanon’s Bloody Summer Lebanon’s Bloody Summer
Rocked by violence and sectarian hatred, Lebanon faces its presidential elections in paralysis, bound to a political system that's no longer viable and stymied over what kind of co...
Jul 10, 2007 / Feature / Mohamad Bazzi
Remembering Vilma Espín Remembering Vilma Espín
A Cuban writer pays tribute to Vilma Espín, wife of Raúl Castro and Cuba's first lady, who fought tirelessly for the rights of women in a male-dominated country.
Jun 27, 2007 / Feature / Rosa Miriam Elizalde