Laundering Yeltsin Laundering Yeltsin
The Russian Foreign Minister says it's an American plot to keep Russia weak. The head of the KGB-successor agency offers that same conviction in a formal briefing to President Bo...
Sep 16, 1999 / Feature / Matt Bivens
Ending Timor’s Ordeal Ending Timor’s Ordeal
Indonesia's scorched-earth compliance with international pressure on East Timor has left Dili, the capital, in ruins, displaced some 100,000 people to refugee camps under the con...
Sep 16, 1999 / The Editors
Robbing Russia Robbing Russia
Finally, the rampant corruption at the core of Russia's post-Communist transformation is front-page news.
Sep 16, 1999 / The Editors
US Complicity in Timor US Complicity in Timor
While the Indonesian military's thugs continue their rampage in East Timor, most foreign reporters have fled the country.
Sep 9, 1999 / Allan Nairn
East Timor’s Agony East Timor’s Agony
With Dili burning and anti-independence militias carrying on a murderous terror campaign beneath the noses of Indonesian soldiers and police, the United Nations prepared to evac...
Sep 9, 1999 / The Editors
A Haunted Journey A Haunted Journey
Poland’s Jewish community inspired Jewish life the world over. Now it is dead.
Sep 9, 1999 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Commentary School of Falsification The Commentary School of Falsification
Israeli schoolchildren returned to their desks this year to find a new history curriculum.
Sep 2, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Harnessing the Rising Sun Harnessing the Rising Sun
Americans aren't much for history these days. History is for Europeans--for Germans, with their thickets of theory, and the French, who are forever going on about their revolutio...
Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
Does Europe Do It Better? Does Europe Do It Better?
Listen to a debate among drug policy advocates and you're likely to hear impassioned claims about the brilliant success (or dismal failure) of more "liberal" approaches in certai...
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter
Russia and Election 2000 Russia and Election 2000
President Boris Yeltsin's firing of his fifth Prime Minister in seventeen months and Russia's renewed war in the Caucasus are stark signs of his regime's instability, desperation...
Aug 19, 1999 / Katrina vanden Heuvel