Paying for Apartheid Paying for Apartheid
Two major lawsuits--filed in the United States against multinational corporations including GM, IBM and Citigroup for aiding and abetting apartheid--are at a critical juncture.
May 15, 2003 / John S. Friedman
Shaking the Kingdom Shaking the Kingdom
The suicide attacks in Riyadh, which Saudi officials blamed on Al Qaeda, were barbarous acts.
May 15, 2003 / The Editors
Looting and Conquest Looting and Conquest
US troops transformed the ancient site of Ur into a base, even digging trenches into the ground.
May 14, 2003 / Feature / Zainab Bahrani
The Revolution Within The Revolution Within
In the current national climate, the notion that Washington might learn from the experience of former Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev or Mikhail Gorbachev would strike most as...
May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert D. English
Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society
It is agonizingly difficult to write about one's hometown as it drowns in flames and suffocates with smoke.
May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon
Samaritans in the Desert Samaritans in the Desert
Defying US policy, they save the lives of illegal migrants, a cup of water at a time.
Elections vs. Democracy in Argentina Elections vs. Democracy in Argentina
In most of the world, it's the sign for peace, but here in Argentina it means war.
May 8, 2003 / Column / Naomi Klein
Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad
Many Russians who fled Brezhnev's USSR because they could not speak freely are in a state of shock in today's America. One is Roman Kaplan, an intellectual from Leningrad (now ...
May 5, 2003 / Feature / Nina Khrushcheva
Bird on a Wire Bird on a Wire
I didn't have to wait long for Ziad, the plumber, to come to my house. It had been a year since the current Palestinian intifada broke out in September 2000, and unemployment w...
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Raja Shehadeh