The African Predicament The African Predicament
Howard French has written a passionate, heartbreaking and ultimately heartbroken book about covering West Africa's blood-soaked descent into a nightmare of war and greed as a rep...
May 27, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Deborah Scroggins
The Maharani of Muck The Maharani of Muck
Perched elegantly on an exotic throw pillow in her seaside Bombay apartment, the Arabian Sea breeze gently ruffling her long black hair, Shobhaa De looks like one of the seductre...
May 27, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Miranda Kennedy
Chalabi’s Long, Costly Charade Chalabi’s Long, Costly Charade
Can it get any more bizarre?
May 25, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
On Israel On Israel
Is there any sense in the independence of one people at the expense of the fundamental rights of the other?
May 24, 2004 / Daniel Barenboim
The North Korean Conundrum The North Korean Conundrum
In the prevailing American stereotype, North Korea is a failing Stalinist dictatorship held together only by the ruthless repression of a mad ruler who dreams of firing nuclear w...
May 20, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Selig S. Harrison
India’s Radical Vote India’s Radical Vote
The Indian people have delivered a stunning electoral blow to the right-wing National Democratic Alliance, led by the Hindu-chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party, and paved the way f...
May 20, 2004 / Praful Bidwai
The View From Prague The View From Prague
Only on my last day in this hilly, river-spliced city, with such beguiling old world charm and art nouveau elegance that unless you're Kafka a strenuous effort is required to m...
May 13, 2004 / Peter Davis
The Good War The Good War
For the last three and a half years the Israeli army has deployed American-supplied F-16 fighter jets, Apache helicopters, armored Caterpillar bulldozers and Merkava tanks po...
May 13, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Joel Beinin
Bhopal’s Legacy Bhopal’s Legacy
Every December for the past nineteen years, marchers in Bhopal, India, have paraded an effigy of Warren Anderson through town and burned it. Anderson is despised because he was...
May 6, 2004 / Mark Hertsgaard
Native Son Native Son
At the height of the Great Game, when adventure-crazed young men from Britain and Russia stealthily documented the wild miles and tribes of Central Asia, an American and an Eng...
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Leela Jacinto