Articles

Imperial Temptation Imperial Temptation

The idea of empire, once so effectively used by Ronald Reagan to discredit the Soviet Union, has recently undergone a strange rehabilitation in the United States. This process, wh...

May 9, 2002 / Amitav Ghosh

Judging the Tribunals Judging the Tribunals

After years of collecting evidence against Slobodan Milosevic, the prosecutors at The Hague expected a decisive victory. But as the former Yugoslav president, who insisted on d...

May 9, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Daphne Eviatar

Time to Step In Time to Step In

The recently announced plans for an international conference on the Middle East confront the Bush Administration with a major test of its capacity for international leadership....

May 9, 2002 / The Editors

Milosevic, Still at War Milosevic, Still at War

It is probably safe to say that the war crimes trial in The Hague of the former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic is not going well. At least so far. No credible witnesses ha...

May 9, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder

President Bush’s Wag-the-Dog Policy on Iraq President Bush’s Wag-the-Dog Policy on Iraq

With its admission that an alleged link between Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11 attacks doesn't exist, the Bush administration has lost its most compelling argument for invadin...

May 9, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Support for Refuseniks Support for Refuseniks

About three weeks ago, Moti Perry, an economics professor from Hebrew University, organized twenty-eight of his colleagues and together they published a letter supporting studen...

May 9, 2002 / Neve Gordon

A Voting Reform That Works Is Transforming Texas A Voting Reform That Works Is Transforming Texas

Considering the role that Florida's electoral mess played in making him president, and considering his active disinterest in reforming political processes to assure that the Flori...

May 7, 2002 / John Nichols

Crusader: Intrigue and Backstabbing In the House of Bush Crusader: Intrigue and Backstabbing In the House of Bush

It's a tale of big guns and a big gun. It's a Bush family melodrama, a story of personal connections, possible backstabbing and multiple intrigues, a Washin...

May 6, 2002 / David Corn

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare I have been on something of a Shakespeare comedy jag over the past months; I laughed all the way from Columbus, Ohio, to New York...

May 6, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Afghan Victims Deserve US Support Afghan Victims Deserve US Support

When Congress contemplates the upcoming 2002 Supplemental Appropriations bill, there's a small item that should be added to the budget: $20 million to help the Afghan people who w...

May 3, 2002 / Medea Benjamin and Jason Mark

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