Brightness at Midnight? Brightness at Midnight?
Climatically hot, it is politically a very strange summer on this side of the ocean.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen
Letter From Europe
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
How Many Masses Is Poland Worth? How Many Masses Is Poland Worth?
"Oh God," Heinrich Heine wrote, "how big is your zoo!" This sentence kept popping into my head in June as I read the dispatches of my journalistic colleagues on Pope John Paul II...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Handicapping the French Elections Handicapping the French Elections
All the ingredients are apparently there, but somehow the mayonnaise does not bind.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Market Is the New Religion The Market Is the New Religion
Back in Warsaw after my trip to Gdansk, I talk about the economy with the outgoing government's spokesman on reform. He is more specific on what is to be done than on how it sho...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Czechoslovakia’s Quiet Revolution Czechoslovakia’s Quiet Revolution
"Havel to the castle": In the doubly festive mood just before Christmas the heart of Prague was full of posters bearing that slogan and a picture of Vaclav Havel, the famous pl...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Coup in Algeria Coup in Algeria
CORRECTION: 28 percent of registered voters chose the Islamic Salvation Front. (3/2/92).
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Yeltsin in Dubious Battle Yeltsin in Dubious Battle
For once Boris Yeltsin was true to his word. He had said in public that August would be the month of "artillery preparations" and September the time of the clash. On September 21...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Mitterrand Le Petit Mitterrand Le Petit
The longest reign in the history of the French Republic is coming to an end, possibly a premature one, with a sense of drama.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Islam Through Western Eyes Islam Through Western Eyes
This essay, by the late Edward Said, from the April 26, 1980, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Edward W. Said