In Re Lori Berenson In Re Lori Berenson
In the nearly five years since Lori Berenson's arrest in a Peruvian police roundup, the politics and emotions swirling around her case have only intensified.
Aug 24, 2000 / The Editors
The Lori Berenson Papers The Lori Berenson Papers
Research support: the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute. Additional reporting: Edmundo Cruz.
Aug 24, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Levi and Liz Mineo
Countdown in Managua Countdown in Managua
A river of people, 19,000 workers, packed ten or twelve across, pours slowly through a bazaar of hawkers toward the gates of the Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone, about a mile from M...
Aug 24, 2000 / Feature / Robert J.S. Ross and Charles Kernaghan
Pity Bush, Gamely Shedding Treaties Like Dandruff Pity Bush, Gamely Shedding Treaties Like Dandruff
It is time to rally around our President and forego the constant drumbeat of criticism that has been his lot on the world stage ever since he discovered that foreign policy invol...
Jul 31, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Putin’s Choice Putin’s Choice
Vladimir Putin has been Russia's President for seven months, but there is no agreement in Moscow as to who he is or what kind of leader he will be.
Jul 13, 2000 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Pulling Back the Veil on Condor Pulling Back the Veil on Condor
For three years, from 1975 through 1977, the countries in what is known as the Southern Cone of South America underwent a human rights crime wave unprecedented before or since in...
Jul 13, 2000 / Feature / John Dinges
George Smiley, Move Over George Smiley, Move Over
"This is a story about a spy," writes Millicent Dillon in Harry Gold: A Novel.
Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Elsa Dixler
Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets
These days, the once highly revered nuclear weapons lab at Los Alamos is the butt of jokes and investigations over the latest revelation--that top-secret files supposedly locke...
Jun 27, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Do As We Say, Not As We Do Do As We Say, Not As We Do
What's wrong with this picture?: Slobodan Milosevic will be dragged before an international war crimes tribunal while Robert McNamara tours American college campuses touting hi...
Jun 26, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
‘Give Peace a Chance’–While the Fools Fight On ‘Give Peace a Chance’–While the Fools Fight On
When it comes to world politics, the best Beatle was right.
Jun 22, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer