Russian Nuclear Roulette Russian Nuclear Roulette
A baccalaureate should be an occasion to celebrate the present and express optimism about the future, but I must come to you today with very bad news about Russia, my subject of s...
Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Stephen F. Cohen
Blindness in Gaza Blindness in Gaza
The bombing of a Tel Aviv disco, in which twenty Israelis, many of them teenagers, were killed, was an atrocity of such horror that it seemed to shock both sides into taking steps...
Jun 7, 2001 / The Editors
The New Nuclear Danger The New Nuclear Danger
Policies are more confused than at any time since the weapons were invented.
Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Jonathan Schell
Italy’s ‘House of Freedoms’ Italy’s ‘House of Freedoms’
For ten days in mid-May, I lectured in Italy promoting the translated version of my recent book, The Story of American Freedom. Among other things, the book relates how in the pas...
May 31, 2001 / Eric Foner
Russia–Scamming the System Russia–Scamming the System
Thefts from other countries pale in relation to the looting of Russia, with the indispensable assistance of the "Offshornaya Zona." The 1995 "loans for shares" scheme transferred ...
May 31, 2001 / Feature / Lucy Komisar
The Battle of Algiers The Battle of Algiers
A new memoir stirs long-suppressed memories of the “war without a name.”
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
We’re All Ears We’re All Ears
What sticks in my mind more than any particular accomplishment of the supersecret National Security Agency is its mammoth size. Only a few miles from my home, I now know, exists a...
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
Cold Comfort Cold Comfort
They were kidnapped on the street, or summoned to the village square, or lured from home with false promises of work, to be forced into the Japanese military's far-flung, highly ...
May 25, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Nigeria, Two Years On Nigeria, Two Years On
"Democracy without dividends." That's the phrase you're likely to hear from many Nigerians asked to assess the country's democratic experience under President Olusegun Obasanjo. T...
May 25, 2001 / Sunday Dare
Body Count in Kosovo Body Count in Kosovo
Over the past two years, it has become commonplace to read that the casualties among Kosovo Albanians were not sufficiently high to warrant the NATO intervention that put an end-...
May 25, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens