Letter From Palestine Letter From Palestine
The mood in the occupied territories is one of growing rage and despair.
Jul 12, 2001 / Feature / Roane Carey
Pinochet’s Charade Pinochet’s Charade
Augusto Pinochet entered political life in 1973 by destroying the rule of law. Now, twenty-eight years later, thanks to a decision by a Chilean appeals court, he exits the public ...
Jul 12, 2001 / Marc Cooper
Milosevic on Trial Milosevic on Trial
The prospect of Slobodan Milosevic facing justice before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is a giant step. For the first time in history a former head...
Jul 12, 2001 / The Editors
Israel Shahak, 1933-2001 Israel Shahak, 1933-2001
In early June I sat on a panel, in front of a large and mainly Arab audience, with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. Our hosts, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Commit...
Jul 12, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
The Berenson Verdict The Berenson Verdict
Last August, amid the final throes of President Alberto Fujimori's scandal-ridden administration in Peru, he bowed to US pressure and announced that Lori Berenson's conviction by ...
Jun 28, 2001 / The Editors
Letter From Palestine Letter From Palestine
I'm sitting in a drab back room in the Gaza Strip's Deir al Bala refugee camp, discussing the latest stage of the Israel-Palestine conflict with a half-dozen or so young Palestini...
Jun 28, 2001 / Feature / Roane Carey
Annan’s AIDS Crusade Annan’s AIDS Crusade
On a late June day that will surely have been picked by the political astrologers around him, Kofi Annan of Ghana will likely be coronated for a second five-year term as Secretary...
Jun 21, 2001 / Pranay Gupte
Russian Nuclear Roulette Russian Nuclear Roulette
A baccalaureate should be an occasion to celebrate the present and express optimism about the future, but I must come to you today with very bad news about Russia, my subject of s...
Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Stephen F. Cohen
Blindness in Gaza Blindness in Gaza
The bombing of a Tel Aviv disco, in which twenty Israelis, many of them teenagers, were killed, was an atrocity of such horror that it seemed to shock both sides into taking steps...
Jun 7, 2001 / The Editors
Italy’s ‘House of Freedoms’ Italy’s ‘House of Freedoms’
For ten days in mid-May, I lectured in Italy promoting the translated version of my recent book, The Story of American Freedom. Among other things, the book relates how in the pas...
May 31, 2001 / Eric Foner