Algeria Slides Into Civil War Algeria Slides Into Civil War
Voici le temps des assassins, the bilingual Algerians could exclaim, echoing Rimbaud, when nearly a year ago, their intellectuals began to be slaughtered by Islamic fundamentali...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard
Suspense without passion is France's strange electoral mood for the moment. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's advisers are both perturbed and fundamentally optimistic.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The French C.P.–On the Way Out? The French C.P.–On the Way Out?
The French Communist Party has no future in the government. Does it have a future outside it?
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Partnership for Poland? Partnership for Poland?
There was no miracle at the polls for the regime of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order
Nineteen ninety-three, with its single market and its important steps toward monetary and political union, was to have been Europe's momentous A 1 year.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Dream and the Nightmare The Dream and the Nightmare
"How could anyone possibly say that the October Revolution was in vain?" the poet Tvardovsky angrily told Solzhenitsyn in what now seems another age.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Jaruzelski Sends in the Tanks Jaruzelski Sends in the Tanks
Sunday, December 13, order reigned in Warsaw. Martial law had been proclaimed. Tanks patrolled the streets of the capital.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest
Recently, The Economist took out a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times of London boasting that it had predicted the coal miners' strike six years ago.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Handicapping the French Elections Handicapping the French Elections
All the ingredients are apparently there, but somehow the mayonnaise does not bind.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Specter of Capitalism The Specter of Capitalism
The rulers of the capitalist world who came to Paris for the bicentennial celebrations last month were in a smug mood.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer