My Friend, the Enemy My Friend, the Enemy
Sandy Tolan’s The Lemon Tree is a novelistic account of two intertwined lives, one Palestinian and one Jewish, and a house with two histories.
Oct 12, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Roane Carey
Taliban Rising Taliban Rising
If the corruption of Karzai's government is Afghanistan's new cancer, then the Taliban are increasingly seen as chemotherapy: an unpleasant but necessary remedy.
Oct 12, 2006 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Israel’s Cassandra Israel’s Cassandra
If Israel is to fulfill the Zionist vision of being a state like any other, it must take responsibility for the ever-more explosive Middle East.
Oct 12, 2006 / Arno Mayer
Anna Politkovskaya Anna Politkovskaya
The killing of Anna Politkovskaya has rallied her journalistic colleagues and fellow citizens in a way few other recent events have.
Oct 12, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ban’s First Challenge? Ban’s First Challenge?
South Korea's quiet-spoken and principled Ban Ki-moon, who has just been nominated to replace Kofi Annan as the UN Secretary General, may find it difficult to confront US unilatera...
Oct 12, 2006 / Ian Williams
Shock Waves From Kilju Shock Waves From Kilju
A forgetful world was reminded this week that Kim Jong Il now holds in his hand the same pitiless weapon possessed by a growing number of nations.
Oct 11, 2006 / Jonathan Schell
Just Blame Bill Just Blame Bill
Instead of pursuing real diplomacy with North Korea, the Bush Administration chose a my-way-or-the-highway approach. Rather than face up to the mess they made, it's easier to blame...
Oct 11, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
Gone Nuclear: How the World Lost Its Way Gone Nuclear: How the World Lost Its Way
As the world reacts to news of North Korea's underground nuclear test, a crucial anniversary is observed: Twenty years ago at the Reykjavik Summit, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorb...
Oct 10, 2006 / Feature / Richard Falk, Mary Kaldor, Randall Caroline Forsberg, and George Perkovich
Woodward, Revised Woodward, Revised
Bob Woodward is late to the party: His new book, State of Denial, catches up to the story of the Iraq debacle that other journalists have been reporting for years.
Oct 9, 2006 / David Corn
Foley’s IMbroglio Foley’s IMbroglio
It shows how hapless and shallow Democrats are that they show so little electoral joy in a principled challenge to GOP rule. Instead we get tactical theatrics about whatever comes ...
Oct 5, 2006 / Column / Katha Pollitt