World Leaders

The Führer Furor The Führer Furor

Chaplinesque Rapscallion New Leader of Germany's National Socialist Party       --The Onion "I have nothing to say about Hitler." With this...

Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter

Iraq’s Rehabilitation Iraq’s Rehabilitation

When members of the Arab League gathered for an emergency summit in Cairo on October 21 to discuss "the grave situation in the Palestinian Territories and its impact on the peace...

Oct 26, 2000 / Dilip Hiro

Bitter Facts in the Mideast Bitter Facts in the Mideast

The fundamentals in the Middle East have changed so drastically--unalterably--that the recent agreement at Sharm el Sheik was just a strip of gauze on a gaping wound. The complac...

Oct 19, 2000 / The Editors

Blaming Arik Last Blaming Arik Last

Marvin Kalb, executive director of the Washington office of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, diagnoses an anti-Israel tilt in the US media,...

Oct 12, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

On the Events in Serbia On the Events in Serbia

It took them thirteen years to ditch Old Slobodan Milosevic. Now people see a new day dawn, But notice that he's still not gone.

Oct 12, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Slobo’s Ghosts Slobo’s Ghosts

In Serbia people power has swept out another tyrant. In the aftermath the Yugoslav federation's new president, Vojislav Kostunica, the constitutional scholar of strong nationalis...

Oct 12, 2000 / The Editors

Serbia’s Moment Serbia’s Moment

A new era has begun in Serbia, not only because Slobodan Milosevic has at last been expelled from office but because the deed was accomplished by the Serbian people acting in sol...

Oct 12, 2000 / Laura Secor

The Former Yugoslavia The Former Yugoslavia

During the Kosovo crisis of last year, it was commonplace if not routine to hear two mantras being intoned by those who had decided that "never" would be about the right ...

Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

CIA Outrages in Chile CIA Outrages in Chile

"Covert action," the late Senator Frank Church concluded in 1976 after his long inquiry into CIA operations in Chile and elsewhere, is a "semantic disguise for murder, coercion, ...

Sep 28, 2000 / Peter Kornbluh

Who Is Putin? Who Is Putin?

Russia's third presidential election, on March 26, should have been historic--the first democratic transfer of Kremlin power via the ballot box.

Mar 30, 2000 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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