Bloodbath in Cairo: An Eyewitness Account Bloodbath in Cairo: An Eyewitness Account
In some of the worst violence since the revolution, a peaceful march of mostly Coptic Christians was brutally attacked by Egyptian security forces, leaving 25 people dead and 300 i...
Oct 11, 2011 / Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Malalai Joya’s Message on the 10th Anniversary of the Afghanistan War Malalai Joya’s Message on the 10th Anniversary of the Afghanistan War
An outspoken critic of the Karzai administration and its western supporters, Joya's perspective is not one you find often in the US media.
Oct 8, 2011 / Peter Rothberg
Will Anna Politkovskaya’s Killer Finally Face Justice? Will Anna Politkovskaya’s Killer Finally Face Justice?
Five years after the death of the Russian journalist, police have arrested a central figure in the murder. But will the investigation get to the bottom of all the uncomfortable tru...
Oct 7, 2011 / Adam Federman
WikiLeaks Haiti: US Cables Paint Portrait of Brutal, Ineffectual and Polluting UN Force WikiLeaks Haiti: US Cables Paint Portrait of Brutal, Ineffectual and Polluting UN Force
As the renewal date for the UN mission in Haiti nears, WikiLeaks cables reveal a litany of MINUSTAH’s failures.
Oct 6, 2011 / Dan Coughlin
Jeremy Scahill: Al-Shabab’s Deadly Bomb Blast in Somalia Jeremy Scahill: Al-Shabab’s Deadly Bomb Blast in Somalia
Al-Shabab is the direct product of America's short-sighted and invasive foreign policy and American involvement in Somalia has benefitted the radical groups it has set out to defea...
Oct 5, 2011 / Press Room
Awlaki Assassination Puts Obama Above the Law Awlaki Assassination Puts Obama Above the Law
Welcome to the Drone Empire, in which the president's executioners can kill without legal restraint.
Oct 5, 2011 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The UK’s Labour Party Finds Its Voice The UK’s Labour Party Finds Its Voice
Ed Miliband has began to nudge his party in a new direction—a left populism that just might challenge Britain’s real rulers, in corporate boardrooms and in Parliament.
Oct 5, 2011 / D.D. Guttenplan
Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama Getting to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama
The Origins of Political Order, a work of total world history, pits the old Fukuyama against the new.
Oct 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney
Nurses’ Prescription for Healing Our Economy Nurses’ Prescription for Healing Our Economy
When it comes to a financial transactions tax, European conservatives and American nurses are way ahead of President Obama.
Oct 5, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
US Killings in Yemen: Good Politics at Home, But a Quagmire Abroad US Killings in Yemen: Good Politics at Home, But a Quagmire Abroad
Even Barack Obama knows that the political necessity to prove that he is tough on terror can have dangerous consequences for American security and his standing throughout the wor...
Oct 4, 2011 / Tom Hayden