On Recapturing the Soviet Past On Recapturing the Soviet Past
The dead, claims a French legal saying, seizes the living--"le mort saisit le vif"--and indeed the dead weight of the past often seems to be strangling the present, particularly ...
Nov 11, 2003 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Lost Causes Lost Causes
Nations, like individuals, sustain trauma, mourn and recover. And like individuals they survive by making sense of what has befallen them, by constructing a narrative of loss a...
Nov 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Laqueur
Colombia and Human Rights Colombia and Human Rights
The State Department, ignoring its own human rights reports, continues to assert that the Colombian government is complying with all conditions necessary for aid.
Nov 6, 2003 / Feature / Nina Englander
Pillage Is Forbidden Pillage Is Forbidden
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Nov 6, 2003 / Feature / The Nation
Bring Halliburton Home Bring Halliburton Home
Click here for more info on why Paul Bremer's "reforms" in Iraq have been illegal to begin with. Compiled by Aaron Maté.
Nov 6, 2003 / Column / Naomi Klein
The Struggle for Russia The Struggle for Russia
The arrest last month of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the principal owner of Russia's biggest oil company, Yukos, and the richest of the country's seventeen state-anointed billionaire...
Nov 6, 2003 / Editorial / Stephen F. Cohen
How Many Body Bags? How Many Body Bags?
Bush must reverse his misguided policy and get out of Iraq now.
Nov 5, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Curse of the Caucasus The Curse of the Caucasus
When George Kennan set out for the Caucasus in 1870, few if any Americans had explored the highlands of Dagestan, Chechnya and the wild frontiers of imperial Russia. And with good ...
Oct 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Raffi Khatchadourian
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
A new justification for our war on Iraq has been born out of the war itself.
Oct 30, 2003 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
Bolivia’s Fight for Dignity Bolivia’s Fight for Dignity
The tens of thousands of Bolivians in the streets in October demanding the resignation of President (now ex-) Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada came from all walks of life and included...
Oct 30, 2003 / Editorial / Jimmy Langman