On the Fading of the Euro Dream On the Fading of the Euro Dream
Momentum for the euro wanes. The krone is preferred by Danes. And recent surveys all have found That British voters love their pound. But, seeing this through New World eyes,...
Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Cartography of Death The Cartography of Death
Certainly...get him hanged! Why not? Anything--anything can be done in this country. --Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness So here we are, barely into the next century, and...
Oct 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
The Former Yugoslavia The Former Yugoslavia
During the Kosovo crisis of last year, it was commonplace if not routine to hear two mantras being intoned by those who had decided that "never" would be about the right ...
Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
CIA Outrages in Chile CIA Outrages in Chile
"Covert action," the late Senator Frank Church concluded in 1976 after his long inquiry into CIA operations in Chile and elsewhere, is a "semantic disguise for murder, coercion, ...
Sep 28, 2000 / Peter Kornbluh
Aid for Nuclear Workers Aid for Nuclear Workers
Madame Curie's denial of radiation dangers is emblematic of the legacy we now face as America's romance with the atom draws to a close.
Sep 25, 2000 / Robert Alvarez
A Full Tank of Paradoxes A Full Tank of Paradoxes
Contrary to the impression fostered by the government's supporters, not all the fuel protesters are selfish, gas-guzzling throwbacks greedy for a bigger TV.
Sep 25, 2000 / Maria Margaronis
Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case
In a bad spy flick, there's got to be a character like Notra Trulock, an obsessed sleuth who always gets his man--even if it's the wrong man.
Sep 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Iraq: What the Butler Saw Iraq: What the Butler Saw
At the beginning of September, Hans Blix, head of UNMOVIC, the latest UN commission for verifying Iraqi disarmament, poised to report his new team's readiness to go into Iraq.
Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
Russia’s Environmental Crisis Russia’s Environmental Crisis
NPR's Living On Earth program broadcast a radio version of this story over the weekend of September 1-3, 2000. Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Ins...
Sep 7, 2000 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
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