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The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity

The brother of the Sultan of Brunei Set out to see how much a guy could buy, And fifteen billion's what he finally spent Before the sultan voiced some discontent. The guilt o...

Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

We Are the World We Are the World

At 5 o'clock in the morning, the radio alarm begins to blare the news. The United States is threatening to pull out of the World Conference Against Racism if the conversati...

Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Letters Letters

IF I HAD A HAMMER... Bellevue, Wash. I agree with Katrina vanden Heuvel on the necessity of building a better infrastructure to combat the right-wing...

Aug 23, 2001 / Katrina vanden Heuvel, Victor Navasky, and Our Readers

The American Nightmare The American Nightmare

It should surprise no one that the European revolutionaries are not inspired by the American dream. Nobody, after all, expected the fighters for national liberation in the post-N...

Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Poland–The Taste of Ashes Poland–The Taste of Ashes

From your very first encounters at the modernized Warsaw airport you know that you have entered the kingdom of private enterprise. The operator at the money exchange hands me $30...

Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Pentagon’s Radioactive Bullet The Pentagon’s Radioactive Bullet

It is about two feet long, cylindrical and far denser than steel. When fired from a U.S. Army M1 Abrams tank, it is capable of drilling a hole through the strongest of tank armor...

Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Bill Mesler

Tennessee’s Dilemma Tennessee’s Dilemma

Those who say that nothing of importance can be decided at Dayton have, at first glance, reason on their side.

Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Joseph Wood Krutch

Atom Bomb: One World or None Atom Bomb: One World or None

The creation of the atom bomb is the greatest revolution ever accomplished in science--and unquestionably the most frightening.

Aug 23, 2001 / Freda Kirchwey

What Price Moondust? What Price Moondust?

July 28, 1969

Aug 23, 2001 / The Editors

Fighting the Global Gag Rule Fighting the Global Gag Rule

Despite statements to the contrary, the rule is resulting in tragic circumstances for women abroad.

Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Isabelle Lindenmayer

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