If This Isn’t War If This Isn’t War
A musical answer to a bellicose question, with apologies to Yip Harburg and Burton Lane.
Apr 13, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The End of Berlusconi? The End of Berlusconi?
Recent elections see Italy divided as it has not been since 1948, but Romano Prodi has reason to be confident that his center-left coalition will prevail.
Apr 13, 2006 / Frederika Randall
Hu’s ‘State Visit’ Hu’s ‘State Visit’
The visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao underscores the deteriorating US-China relationship, yet the Bush Administration is making matters worse with diplomatic insults to the Ch...
Apr 13, 2006 / Peter Kwong
Letter From Baghdad: The Growing Sectarian Divide Letter From Baghdad: The Growing Sectarian Divide
Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army now confronts both the US Army and the Sunni insurgents.
Apr 8, 2006 / Feature / David Enders
‘The Lobby’ ‘The Lobby’
The recent furor over a scholarly article suggesting that the "Israel lobby" drives US Mideast policy presents an opportunity for vigorous open debate on a volatile subject.
Apr 6, 2006 / The Editors
‘We Will Not Be Thrown Away!’ ‘We Will Not Be Thrown Away!’
Young rebels in France are fighting not for change but for the same rights their parents tried to secure during the 1968 student revolution.
Apr 6, 2006 / Feature / Angelique Chrisafis
¡No Más! No More! ¡No Más! No More!
Uruguay and Argentina are cutting ties with the US Army's School of the Americas, paving the way for other Latin American countries to end a destabilizing force that only perpetuat...
Mar 31, 2006 / Feature / Patrick Mulvaney
Looking for Answers in Argentina Looking for Answers in Argentina
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, icons of courageous demands for accountability in Argentina, marked a thirty-year milestone and a significant if imperfect victory in the fight fo...
Mar 23, 2006 / Joanne Omang
Israel’s Backward March Israel’s Backward March
If Israel's Kadima Party prevails at the polls as expected, its policies will effectively take Israelis several steps backward.
Mar 23, 2006 / Neve Gordon
Learning to Love the Bomb Learning to Love the Bomb
Could the world learn to live with a nuclear Iran? A new power equation of nuclear proliferation is emerging to challenge the Bush Administration's bluster on the subject.
Mar 21, 2006 / Feature / William Greider