East Timor’s Agony East Timor’s Agony
With Dili burning and anti-independence militias carrying on a murderous terror campaign beneath the noses of Indonesian soldiers and police, the United Nations prepared to evac...
Sep 9, 1999 / The Editors
US Complicity in Timor US Complicity in Timor
While the Indonesian military's thugs continue their rampage in East Timor, most foreign reporters have fled the country.
Sep 9, 1999 / Allan Nairn
A Haunted Journey A Haunted Journey
After the war life will begin to stir once again, but we won't be here, we will have vanished just as the Aztecs have vanished.
Sep 9, 1999 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Road to Reform The Road to Reform
Nearly everyone seems to agree that the war on drugs has been a disaster, but little progress in ending it has been made.
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Carol A. Bergman
Marijuana Made Easy Marijuana Made Easy
For more than half a century, the US government has maintained a hard line on marijuana, denying that the plant has any medical value at all.
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Cynthia Cotts
George Soros’s Long Strange Trip George Soros’s Long Strange Trip
Research assistance: David Levinson Wilk.
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Russ Baker
Does Europe Do It Better? Does Europe Do It Better?
Listen to a debate among drug policy advocates and you're likely to hear impassioned claims about the brilliant success (or dismal failure) of more "liberal" approaches in certai...
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter
An Old City Seeks a New Model An Old City Seeks a New Model
In early December 1984, an undercover police officer named Marcellus Ward met with a pair of heroin dealers above a candy store in southwest Baltimore.
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Joshua Wolf Shenk
Harnessing the Rising Sun Harnessing the Rising Sun
Americans aren't much for history these days. History is for Europeans--for Germans, with their thickets of theory, and the French, who are forever going on about their revolutio...
Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
Kilroy Was There Kilroy Was There
In the summer of 1941, Adolf Hitler's apparently invincible Wehrmacht was grinding hundreds of miles into the Soviet Union, spreading mayhem all the way.
Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Tom Wicker