World

Exile and the Kingdom Exile and the Kingdom

The world of letters lost one of its most eloquent voices on January 24, when the Saudi novelist Abdelrahman Munif died in his Damascus exile after a protracted illness.

Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Tariq Ali

Killing Time Killing Time

From its unification in 1871 until its comprehensive defeat in 1945, Germany was the most bellicose and nationalistic of modern countries.

Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel

Company Man Company Man

The name Shakespeare in Britain is rather like the names Ford, Disney and Rockefeller in the United States. He is less an individual than an institution, less an artist than an a...

Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton

The Blame Game The Blame Game

George Bush owes the public a big explanation on WMDs.

Feb 12, 2004 / Feature / David Corn

Kristof to the Rescue? Kristof to the Rescue?

This morning I got an e-mail from Feminist Majority asking me to e-mail the President protesting the Iraqi Governing Council's approval of Resolution 137, which would abolish cur...

Feb 12, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

Kerry should hold himself accountable for his own mistake.

Feb 12, 2004 / Jonathan Schell

Saddam as a Gathering Threat Saddam as a Gathering Threat

So the weapons weren't there--so what, Bush says, Saddam was a "gathering threat." We were certainly right to start a war. This threat simply had to be met.

Feb 12, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Press Watch Press Watch

In July 2002 a retired US Army colonel who would be dead within months unburdened himself of twenty-two classified documents concerning war crimes in Vietnam.

Feb 12, 2004 / Scott Sherman

A New Ice Age? A New Ice Age?

George W. Bush may not know it, but one influential part of his government is finally taking global climate change seriously.

Feb 12, 2004 / Mark Hertsgaard

Iran’s Tainted Elections Iran’s Tainted Elections

Iran's elections, scheduled for February 20, have provoked the gravest political crisis in that country in twenty years.

Feb 12, 2004 / Juan Cole

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