Talking With ‘Red Ken’ Talking With ‘Red Ken’
London's new mayor is Thatcher's old nemesis. Is he also a leading indicator?
Nov 30, 2000 / Feature / Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan
To Hell in His Handbasket To Hell in His Handbasket
Travel writing is a dismal art. From Herodotus, wide-eyed (and perhaps more than a little disoriented) in an India of man-eating ants and black sperm; to Ibn Batuta, the fourteen...
Nov 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Akash Kapur
‘Torture Them’ ‘Torture Them’
Do we want a Vice President who endorses illegal detention and torture of Palestinians? Anthony Cordesman, a national security type frequently deployed as a television pundit, re...
Nov 27, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Coming of Age in Venezuela Coming of Age in Venezuela
A few years back, critics of postmodernism, both left and right, chuckled at the academic sting pulled on the journal Social Text when it published Alan Sokal's bogus article on ...
Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
Accountability on Chile Accountability on Chile
"Actions approved by the U.S. government aggravated political polarization and affected Chile's long tradition of democratic elections and respect for constitutional order and th...
Nov 27, 2000 / Peter Kornbluh
The Vietnam Peace The Vietnam Peace
The President has gone to Vietnam, A smallish country that we used to bomb But now would like to send our products to. And so our corporations take the view That if the count...
Nov 27, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The American Conscience The American Conscience
This essay, from the December 12, 1969, 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...
Nov 22, 2000 / The Editors
Time of the Intifada Time of the Intifada
All the way up the West Bank, from Ramallah and Nablus to Jenin, the remains of burned tires litter the road. The iron-shuttered shops and empty streets and the high-speed Israel...
Nov 2, 2000 / Robert Fisk
For Whom the Gong Tolls For Whom the Gong Tolls
If you stand in Tiananmen Square and keep your eyes open on a normal day, you will see the tour groups with their "keep together" flags, and the long line waiting to see ...
Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Borderline Justice Borderline Justice
In their 1996 book The Next War, former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Peter Schweitzer concoct some troubling scenarios they imagine could confront the United States...
Nov 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Nevins