From Public TV to ‘Dallasty’ From Public TV to ‘Dallasty’
The battle over French television is now being joined in earnest.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Partnership for Poland? Partnership for Poland?
There was no miracle at the polls for the regime of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Western Front Western Front
Fundamentalism is spreading westward; now it has invaded the Maghreb. The results of Algeria's June 12 local elections, in which the Islamic Salvation Front (F.J.S.) won more ...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Papal Polonaise Papal Polonaise
The post-Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed in part because of the glaring contrast between theory and practice, promise and fulfillment.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Italy’s Summer of Discontent Italy’s Summer of Discontent
Maastricht--shorthand now for the speeding up of the European Community's financial integration--is both an eye-opener and a mystification.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest
Recently, The Economist took out a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times of London boasting that it had predicted the coal miners' strike six years ago.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
People’s Sellout People’s Sellout
Wall Street did not simply drag Europe's exchanges down in its fall.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order
Nineteen ninety-three, with its single market and its important steps toward monetary and political union, was to have been Europe's momentous A 1 year.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Socialism’s Setting Sun Socialism’s Setting Sun
Amid the noise of the unending Urbatechnic affaire, a scandal over the Socialist Party's fraudulent financing of its electoral funds, the tenth anniversary of François Mitte...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Capitalism From Above Capitalism From Above
Boris Yeltsin celebrated the first anniversary of his reign in the mood of a satisfied yet rather puzzled survivor ("we jumped into the river not knowing how to swim...but we did...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer