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
Letter From Jayyous Letter From Jayyous
A Palestinian farming village is being strangled by Sharon's wall.
Feb 18, 2004 / Feature / David Bloom
Exile and the Kingdom Exile and the Kingdom
The world of letters lost one of its most eloquent voices on January 24, when the Saudi novelist Abdelrahman Munif died in his Damascus exile after a protracted illness.
Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Tariq Ali
Killing Time Killing Time
From its unification in 1871 until its comprehensive defeat in 1945, Germany was the most bellicose and nationalistic of modern countries.
Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel
Company Man Company Man
The name Shakespeare in Britain is rather like the names Ford, Disney and Rockefeller in the United States. He is less an individual than an institution, less an artist than an a...
Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
Kristof to the Rescue? Kristof to the Rescue?
This morning I got an e-mail from Feminist Majority asking me to e-mail the President protesting the Iraqi Governing Council's approval of Resolution 137, which would abolish cur...
Feb 12, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Iran’s Tainted Elections Iran’s Tainted Elections
Iran's elections, scheduled for February 20, have provoked the gravest political crisis in that country in twenty years.
Feb 12, 2004 / Juan Cole
Haiti’s Collapse Haiti’s Collapse
The future of Haiti hinges on support for a state based on law.
Feb 12, 2004 / Amy Wilentz