Israel Plays With Fire Israel Plays With Fire
At 5:20 on the morning of March 22, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Palestinian Hamas, was leaving a mosque in the Gaza Strip when he was killed in an Israeli helicop...
Mar 25, 2004 / Adam Shatz and Roane Carey
Terror in Colombia Terror in Colombia
Paramilitary forces are the enforcers of the promised favorable investment climate.
Mar 23, 2004 / Feature / Bill Weinberg
A New Day in Madrid A New Day in Madrid
Spaniards were bewildered by the American view of their vote to kick out the ruling conservative party as a sign of weakness.
Mar 21, 2004 / Feature / Samuel Loewenberg
Opposing Occupation Opposing Occupation
"I am Jewish. I am Israeli. I am a citizen of this state, and I am very upset."
Mar 20, 2004 / Feature / Ellen Cantarow
Self-Determining Haiti Self-Determining Haiti
This essay, from the August 28, 1920, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on H...
Mar 18, 2004 / Feature / James Weldon Johnson
Remembering Rachel Corrie Remembering Rachel Corrie
Why has Corrie's killing gone unchallenged by the United States?
Mar 18, 2004 / Feature / Adam Shapiro
Moses Goes Down Moses Goes Down
If upon reading the first sentence of Moses Isegawa's debut novel, Abyssinian Chronicles, in an Amsterdam bookstore a few years back, I quickly re-read it a few times and committ...
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Matt Steinglass
The Secret Sharer The Secret Sharer
Although the epigraph of Damon Galgut's novel is taken from Chekhov, it is the ghost of Graham Greene that hovers most palpably over The Good Doctor, and even in the cadence of i...
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Claire Messud
Accidental Friends Accidental Friends
"One does not jail Voltaire." So responded the president of France to calls that Jean-Paul Sartre be arrested for backing an independent Algeria.
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Blix Not Bombs Blix Not Bombs
Before he left New York, Hans Blix had a poster on his apartment wall from the big antiwar demonstration in New York City a year ago on the eve of the attack on Iraq.
Mar 18, 2004 / Ian Williams