Vietnam: ‘Quagmire’ Quackery Vietnam: ‘Quagmire’ Quackery
Another book on the Vietnam War? Yes, and one well worth our attention. Enough time has now passed that A.J. Langguth's Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 serves not only as a wonder...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / David Rudenstine
Chile and the End of Pinochet Chile and the End of Pinochet
The former dictator is charged at last, and human rights are the talk of the nation.
Feb 8, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper
The Emperor’s Old Clothes The Emperor’s Old Clothes
Bush's national security advisers aren't up to the tasks before them.
Feb 1, 2001 / Feature / Bruce Cumings
DU in the Balkans DU in the Balkans
Like much of the Western involvement in the former Yugoslavia, the intense and often heated debate in NATO over the possible ill effects of depleted-uranium ammunition largely ign...
Jan 26, 2001 / Feature / Dusko Doder
From San Juan Hill to Chengue From San Juan Hill to Chengue
He had a busy finale, didn't he, primarily saving his own hide and issuing pardons: eeny meeny miny mo, Marc Rich yes, Leonard Peltier no. In Rolling Stone he called for an end t...
Jan 26, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Letter From Bosnia Letter From Bosnia
Bosnia is an example of what is not working.
Jan 26, 2001 / Feature / Dusko Doder
Powell’s Secret Coup Powell’s Secret Coup
The coronation of Colin Powell will probably not be interrupted by any of the specific questions about his mediocre and sometimes sinister past that were so well phrased by David C...
Jan 5, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Alan Cranston Alan Cranston
After retiring from the Senate in 1993, Alan Cranston, who died on New Year's Eve of the new millennium in the home of his son Kim, began a new career that was as important as th...
Jan 5, 2001 / Jonathan Schell
A Tale of Two Venonas A Tale of Two Venonas
A review of The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel.
Dec 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Schwartz
Questions for Powell Questions for Powell
Secretary of State-designate Colin Powell needs to explain his participation in several sordid episodes of the United States' past.
Dec 22, 2000 / David Corn