World

Trading Down Trading Down

In less than five years, the garment industry in poor, war-ravaged Cambodia has more than doubled into a $1.5 billion industry employing 200,000 workers and generating nearly thr...

Dec 22, 2004 / Editorial / David Moberg

Versed in Adventure Versed in Adventure

Few modern poets served so long an apprenticeship as Basil Bunting, none had so adventurous a life and few poets' lives have produced such lasting rewards.

Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Burt

An Arab Surrealist An Arab Surrealist

The Springs of Adonis (now also known as the River Ibrahim) run through the Byblos region of Lebanon down through steep gorges to the Mediterranean.

Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robert Irwin

The Literary World System The Literary World System

What are you doing? I mean, right now. You're reading a book review.

Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz

Goodbye to All That? Goodbye to All That?

On European anti-Semitism, old and new.

Dec 16, 2004 / Feature / Tony Judt

Why They Hated Gary Webb Why They Hated Gary Webb

Few spectacles in journalism in the mid-1990s were more disgusting than the slagging of Gary Webb in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.

Dec 16, 2004 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn

On the Poisoning of the Opposition Candidate In the Ukrainian Presidential Election On the Poisoning of the Opposition Candidate In the Ukrainian Presidential Election

His blessings Kerry now can count. That wasn't so hereto. But now we see some limits on What even Rove would do.

Dec 16, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Flawed Intelligence Bill Flawed Intelligence Bill

The debate held before Congress voted to reorganize the nation's intelligence agencies under the authority of an all-powerful intelligence czar was generally portrayed as a simpl...

Dec 16, 2004 / Editorial / John Nichols

War Resisters Go North War Resisters Go North

Protests over the conduct of the Iraq war are mounting from what seems an unlikely place: the ranks of the military.

Dec 16, 2004 / Editorial / Alisa Solomon

Kerik’s ‘Nannygate’ Was the Least of It Kerik’s ‘Nannygate’ Was the Least of It

NYC's media have been looking into allegations of far more consequential transgressions.

Dec 14, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

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