Remains of the Day

Every Wednesday since January 1992, an indefatigable group of halmonis (Korean for “grandmothers”) in their 70s and 80s have led a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.

Margaret Juhae Lee

Their Myths and Ours

Karen Rosenberg has taught Russian literary history in the United States and Austria.

Karen Rosenberg

Out of East Timor

On September 19, as the UN peacekeeping force was deploying in the ashes of Dili, our correspondent Allan Nairn was deported from West Timor to Singapore.

The Editors

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 Boris Yeltsin.

Matt Bivens

Robbing Russia

Finally, the rampant corruption at the core of Russia’s post-Communist transformation is front-page news.

The Editors

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 control of the bruta

The Editors

The Journal’s Russia Scandal

Just before Christmas in 1997, as a tumultuous stock-market crisis ravaged emerging markets in every corner of the globe, readers of the Wall Street Journal were treated to some good news:

Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames

Behind the Blue Helmets

The new US envoy to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, has personal experience of how frustrating it can be to negotiate, even when speaking in the name of that mega-cliché, “the world

Ian Williams

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 evacuate its East Tim

The Editors

A Haunted Journey

After the war life will begin to stir once again, but we won’t be here, we will have vanished just as the Aztecs have vanished.