Regions and Countries

In Europe, Hope Amid the Ruins In Europe, Hope Amid the Ruins

"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/But to be young was very heaven!" The words of Wordsworth do not fully fit, because with so much bloodshed, the stench of corpses, and ske...

Apr 27, 1995 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Stench of Corruption The Stench of Corruption

A righteous wind is sweeping across Europe and corruption is being exposed all over.

Dec 15, 1994 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Kosovo Waits Kosovo Waits

Branko Brudar smiles and tells the new war joke, while carefully placing the Turkish coffee pot on the small office hot plate. "Until when will the Serbs and Croats fight?" goes...

Jan 8, 1993 / Mariana Katzarova

The Continent Divided The Continent Divided

Nineteen ninety-three was to be a banner year for Europe. With the opening of the Single Market people would cross frontiers without visas and goods would flow unhindered by tari...

Jan 8, 1993 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Rebellion in Israel and the Territories The Rebellion in Israel and the Territories

The usual regulatory mechanisms of the mainstream U.S. media (aim: exclusion of troubling or potentially disruptive information, narcosis of population) processed the turmoil in th...

Jan 16, 1988 / Alexander Cockburn

Gore Vidal

Requiem for the American Empire Requiem for the American Empire

“Empires are restless organisms. They must constantly renew themselves; should an empire start leaking energy, it will die.”

Jan 11, 1986 / Gore Vidal

Rosa Luxemburg grave in Berlin

A Spartacan Manifesto A Spartacan Manifesto

Shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, The Nation published the manifesto of the German Spartacists, a group the pair co-founded to incite a Marxist revol...

Mar 8, 1919 / Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Franz Mehring

Flowers at the Berlin Wall Memorial after the commemoration ceremony marking the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin, Germany, on November 9, 2024.

Sovietology and the End of the Cold War Sovietology and the End of the Cold War

The Cold War and its effects.

Nov 5, 0030 / Ronald Grigor Suny

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