The Bloody Cul-de-Sac The Bloody Cul-de-Sac
On March 16, 1978, Aldo Moro--a key figure of Italy's ruling Christian Democracy--was captured in Rome in broad daylight by the Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, hence the initials B.R....
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Terror and the Sense of Justice Terror and the Sense of Justice
An irony emerges from reading the sickening details of the terrorist slaughter in Israel. It is that Menahem Begin, the symbol of Israeli outrage and bereavement, first achieved pr...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Aryeh Neier
Islam Through Western Eyes Islam Through Western Eyes
This essay, by the late Edward Said, from the April 26, 1980, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Edward W. Said
The Strange Case of Baby M The Strange Case of Baby M
I think I understand Judge Harvey Sorkow's ruling in the Baby M case.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Katha Pollitt
Why I’m Not Running for President Why I’m Not Running for President
I'll admit that my realistic chances of becoming President are right down there with Quayle's I.Q.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Gloria Steinem
Where’s the Revolution? Where’s the Revolution?
When I came out in Boston in the mid-1970s, I had no way of knowing that the lesbian and gay movement I was discovering was in many ways unique.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Barbara Smith
Death of a Collaborator Death of a Collaborator
Early on the morning of June 8, a messenger arrived at an apartment in one of the poshest districts of Paris bearing documents to be signed by a former high-level government offi...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Supping With the French Devil Supping With the French Devil
Cartoonists can beat journalists at their own game of first oversimplifying and then exaggerating.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Does the Left Have a Future? Does the Left Have a Future?
With the Soviet model shattered forever, it is the social democratic one that is now in deep crisis in Western Europe. On the face of it, judging just by the results of June's Eu...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer