Regions and Countries

What Have We Done? What Have We Done?

In the weeks leading up to the Iraq war, neoconservatives in and around the Bush Administration counseled the President against seeking a second United Nations Security Council r...

Mar 11, 2004 / The Editors

Iran and America Iran and America

Iran and America are following a negative policy of not alienating each other.

Mar 9, 2004 / Feature / Dilip Hiro

Outsourcing the Friedman Outsourcing the Friedman

Thomas Friedman hasn't been this worked up about free trade since the anti-World Trade Organization protests in Seattle.

Mar 4, 2004 / Column / Naomi Klein

Britain’s Secret Sharers Britain’s Secret Sharers

Barely a month ago Prime Minister Tony Blair looked unstoppable. He'd survived, narrowly, a revolt within his own party over plans to allow universities to charge higher tuition ...

Mar 4, 2004 / Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan

Coup in Haiti Coup in Haiti

For those who know Haitian history, this has been a time of eerie, unhappy déjà vu.

Mar 4, 2004 / Amy Wilentz

The End of the Affair The End of the Affair

It's been a while since Cuba, that caiman-shaped Caribbean isle, ceased to be a place on the map.

Feb 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Achy Obejas

Letter From Paris Letter From Paris

In the form of a law regarding the wearing of the Islamic hijab, women's bodies are a battlefield--again.

Feb 26, 2004 / Feature / Maria Margaronis

Undemocratic Process Undemocratic Process

There has been much comment about the take-no-prisoners approach of the Congressional Republican leadership in cramming through the Medicare prescription-drug benefit this past N...

Feb 26, 2004 / Wayne S. Smith

Silence=Rape Silence=Rape

While the world looks the other way, sexual violence spreads in the Congo.

Feb 19, 2004 / Feature / Jan Goodwin

Israel’s Failing Wall Israel’s Failing Wall

With the specter of an international boycott looming, Sharon has begun to waver.

Feb 19, 2004 / Hillel Schenker

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