Letter From Santiago Letter From Santiago
I arrived here in Chile May 8 as a material witness in a criminal complaint against former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet for the murder of an American friend just days after the ...
May 16, 2002 / Marc Cooper
Onward, Christian Soldiers Onward, Christian Soldiers
In anticipation of the Second Coming, evangelicals leap to Israel's defense.
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Deanne Stillman
A Solution at Last A Solution at Last
Likud says it does not anticipate
That Palestinians will have a state.
So they, in turn, are meant to stop this shrying,
And try to make their peace with occupying.
May 16, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
DC’s Virtual Panopticon DC’s Virtual Panopticon
A camera system in the nation's capital is making civil libertarians nervous.
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Homeland Security X 50 Homeland Security X 50
State officials rush to declare their own versions of the "war on terror."
Letter From Italy Letter From Italy
From Padua's Piazza Insurrezione, where I was standing at 11 in the morning on April 16, the general strike--Italy's first in twenty years--looked and sounded like a great success...
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Joanne Barkan
Time to Step In Time to Step In
The recently announced plans for an international conference on the Middle East confront the Bush Administration with a major test of its capacity for international leadership....
May 9, 2002 / The Editors
Milosevic, Still at War Milosevic, Still at War
It is probably safe to say that the war crimes trial in The Hague of the former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic is not going well. At least so far. No credible witnesses ha...
May 9, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
Judging the Tribunals Judging the Tribunals
After years of collecting evidence against Slobodan Milosevic, the prosecutors at The Hague expected a decisive victory. But as the former Yugoslav president, who insisted on d...
May 9, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Daphne Eviatar
‘I See Thuh Black Card…’ ‘I See Thuh Black Card…’
A review of Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog.
May 9, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Pochoda