World

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

Bringing the War Home Bringing the War Home

In the name of fighting terrorism, the Army has established a domestic command.

May 8, 2003 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

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.

May 8, 2003 / Feature / Bob Moser

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

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

In this space last week, I commented that the choice for the United States in North Korea was probably between a catastrophic war and permitting North Korea to keep its nuclear...

May 8, 2003 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell

The Unconquerable World The Unconquerable World

Violence, Hannah Arendt said, destroys power. The United States is moving quickly down this path.

May 6, 2003 / Feature / Jonathan Schell

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

Labor’s Cold War Labor’s Cold War

Freshly unearthed documents may force the AFL-CIO to face up to past betrayals.

May 1, 2003 / Feature / Tim Shorrock

Now They Tell Us Now They Tell Us

With Baghdad conquered, the fog of prewar has started to clear.

May 1, 2003 / Feature / David Corn

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