The Last ‘Competitive Advantage’: Letter From China The Last ‘Competitive Advantage’: Letter From China
How do the Chinese make such cheap TVs? By silencing, arresting and sometimes torturing labor rights activists.
May 17, 2007 / Feature / Jehangir S. Pocha
Training Iraq’s Death Squads Training Iraq’s Death Squads
The Army's plan to professionalize Iraq's police could backfire, as militia-infiltrated squads become more effective killers.
May 17, 2007 / Feature / Spencer Ackerman
Labour Crowns King Brown Labour Crowns King Brown
The one pledge Gordon Brown can deliver that would make his transition to power meaningful is to withdraw from Iraq immediately.
May 17, 2007 / Column / Gary Younge
‘Can We Talk?’ (cont’d.) ‘Can We Talk?’ (cont’d.)
If we are ever to solve the Israel/Palestinian conflict, learning each other's historical narratives is surely the place to begin.
May 17, 2007 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Third World Idea The Third World Idea
The Third World was never imagined as a place but rather a project, one that was ultimately doomed by globalization--it awaits a resurrection.
May 17, 2007 / Vijay Prashad
Iran Nukes Call Bush’s Bluff Iran Nukes Call Bush’s Bluff
Tehran's religious fanatics move closer to wreaking nuclear havoc, and what can Bush do about it? Nothing.
May 16, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
‘Democracy’ Is Hell ‘Democracy’ Is Hell
In a gruesome marriage of technology and medieval barbarity, an Internet video records the stoning death of a 17-year-old Kurdish girl. Welcome to the new Iraq.
May 10, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Revolutionary Devotion Revolutionary Devotion
Communism, Catholicism and radical Modernism meet on the dissecting table of César Vallejo's poetry.
May 3, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Roberto González Echevarría
Open Letter to Prince Harry Open Letter to Prince Harry
Be a prince of peace: Don't go to Iraq.
May 2, 2007 / Amir Soltani Sheikoleslami
Yeltsin’s (Real) Legacy Yeltsin’s (Real) Legacy
Don't believe the glowing obituaries: Boris Yeltsin's legacy was to de-democratize Russia.
May 2, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel