Kissinger’s Green Light to Suharto Kissinger’s Green Light to Suharto
In a few weeks, East Timor will be able to celebrate both its independence as a country and its status as a democracy. Elections will have produced a government able to seek and re...
Jan 31, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Building the Peace Building the Peace
"I stand before you today as a citizen of a country that has had nothing but disaster, war, brutality and deprivation against its people for many years," Hamid Karzai, leader of ...
Jan 24, 2002 / The Editors
The Others The Others
What if we could see the Afghan dead as we've seen the September 11 victims?
Jan 24, 2002 / Feature / Howard Zinn
Bound and Gagged Bound and Gagged
The first thing they do is cover your eyes. They make you strip to make sure you're not carrying anything. They replace your clothes with uniforms that are not clothes at all.
Jan 24, 2002 / Feature / Charles Glass
Enron and the Bushes Enron and the Bushes
When George W. Bush was first running for governor of Texas, Washington editor David Corn took a look at Bush family activities on behalf of Enron in Argentina--itself now suffer...
Jan 17, 2002 / David Corn
Grief Without Portraits Grief Without Portraits
On December 10, Marc Herold, a professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire, released a report about civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Relying on news accounts fro...
Jan 17, 2002 / Michael Massing
A New Current in Palestine A New Current in Palestine
It's too soon to call it a party, but there's now a popular, independent group.
Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / Edward W. Said
Divide and Misrule Divide and Misrule
One of the old school of the British colonial service, a man with the irresistible name of Sir Penderel Moon, wrote a book about the end of empire and titled it Divide and Quit. At...
Jan 17, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
A New Middle East Approach A New Middle East Approach
It's time for the UN Security Council to impose "externally directed separation."
Jan 10, 2002 / Feature / Jerome M. Segal