On Recapturing the Soviet Past On Recapturing the Soviet Past
The dead, claims a French legal saying, seizes the living--"le mort saisit le vif"--and indeed the dead weight of the past often seems to be strangling the present, particularly ...
Nov 11, 2003 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Howard Dean: Transformative or Transgressive? Howard Dean: Transformative or Transgressive?
Last week, Governor Howard Dean was the front-runner everyone wanted to attack. And he gave his opponents some good reasons. After all, his statement that he wanted to be "the ...
Nov 11, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mr. President, You’re No Moses Mr. President, You’re No Moses
Bush now wants us to believe the Iraq war was about spreading freedom by force, but liars can't be liberators.
Nov 11, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Bush vs. Bush Bush vs. Bush
We know there are rifts inside the Bush Administration, but what about the growing rift between Presidents 41 and 43? Even before the Iraq war, the schism between father and son ...
Nov 7, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Documentary Coup A Documentary Coup
The lights go down in the courtroom, a 16-millimeter projector shoots out its beam, and into the trial blazes evidence of an unprecedented nature: not a report of criminal even...
Nov 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Diaghilev in Perm Diaghilev in Perm
Few Westerners have ever heard of Perm. A former czarist administrative center, rustbelt Soviet city and gateway to the gulag, Perm was long off-limits to foreigners.
Nov 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lynn Garafola
Lost Causes Lost Causes
Nations, like individuals, sustain trauma, mourn and recover. And like individuals they survive by making sense of what has befallen them, by constructing a narrative of loss a...
Nov 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Laqueur
The Democrat-Green Death Struggle The Democrat-Green Death Struggle
In 2000, George W. Bush won 48 percent of the national vote, against a combined total of 52 percent for Al Gore and Ralph Nader.
Nov 6, 2003 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
Ralph Redux? Ralph Redux?
Not only Democrats but many Greens oppose a Nader run in 2004.
Nov 6, 2003 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry
Colombia and Human Rights Colombia and Human Rights
The State Department, ignoring its own human rights reports, continues to assert that the Colombian government is complying with all conditions necessary for aid.
Nov 6, 2003 / Feature / Nina Englander