Democracy’s Dilemmas Democracy’s Dilemmas
In what is being called the "cedar revolution," demonstrators in Beirut brought down the pro-Syrian government at the end of February and forced Damascus to announce the withdr...
Mar 10, 2005 / The Editors
Can Democracy Survive Bush’s Embrace? Can Democracy Survive Bush’s Embrace?
It started off as a joke and has now become vaguely serious: the idea that Bono might be named president of the World Bank.
Mar 10, 2005 / Column / Naomi Klein
Anti-Semite? Self-Hating Jew? Moi? Anti-Semite? Self-Hating Jew? Moi?
That the Boston Globe is a great newspaper can be in no doubt, as its brave (though flawed) reporting on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has recently demonstrated.
Mar 10, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman
Grim Fairy Tales Grim Fairy Tales
It seemed too bizarre to be anything but apocryphal, but, hey, I heard it on NPR: William Poole, a high school junior from Kentucky, was taken into custody and charged with threa...
Mar 10, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
GIs Against Torture GIs Against Torture
Low-ranking soldiers are taking the blame in the torture scandal while higher-ups get a pass.
Mar 9, 2005 / Feature / John Sifton
Letter From Spain Letter From Spain
The barricades went up in Salamanca on December 30.
Mar 9, 2005 / Feature / Geoff Pingree and Lisa Abend
Race to the Bottom Race to the Bottom
Wal-Mart hopes to defeat its opponents by exploiting their racial divisions.
Mar 9, 2005 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
The New Face of Protest? The New Face of Protest?
Antiwar activists cultivate military allies.
Mar 9, 2005 / Feature / Karen Houppert
Fear and Loathing in Italy Fear and Loathing in Italy
Nineteen sixty-eight came early to Italy--it began with student protests at the University of Trento in 1967--and lasted longer, arguably, than anywhere else.
Mar 9, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Frederika Randall