When the People Took the Stage When the People Took the Stage
At the beginning of June 1989, I was sitting in the bar of the Hotel Europejski in Warsaw and reassuring Tadeusz Mazowiecki that his decision to stay on as editor of Solidarity's m...
Oct 14, 1999 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Pakistan: No Way Out Pakistan: No Way Out
For the third time in Pakistan's traumatic history, the army has seized power--this time, apparently, against the advice of the United States. The country is under martial law.
Oct 14, 1999 / Tariq Ali
Remains of the Day Remains of the Day
Every Wednesday since January 1992, an indefatigable group of halmonis (Korean for "grandmothers") in their 70s and 80s have led a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seo...
Oct 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Margaret Juhae Lee
Korean My Lai Korean My Lai
Repressed memory is the ammunition of history, returning when one least expects it to puncture the complacency of the present.
Oct 7, 1999 / Bruce Cumings
The Man From ONA The Man From ONA
Seventy-eight-year-old Andrew Marshall runs the Office of Net Assessment from a small office on the third floor of the Pentagon.
Oct 7, 1999 / Feature / Ken Silverstein
Their Myths and Ours Their Myths and Ours
Karen Rosenberg has taught Russian literary history in the United States and Austria.
Sep 30, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Karen Rosenberg
Out of East Timor Out of East Timor
On September 19, as the UN peacekeeping force was deploying in the ashes of Dili, our correspondent Allan Nairn was deported from West Timor to Singapore.
Sep 23, 1999 / The Editors
The Journal’s Russia Scandal The Journal’s Russia Scandal
Just before Christmas in 1997, as a tumultuous stock-market crisis ravaged emerging markets in every corner of the globe, readers of the Wall Street Journal were treated to some ...
Sep 16, 1999 / Feature / Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames
Laundering Yeltsin Laundering Yeltsin
The Russian Foreign Minister says it's an American plot to keep Russia weak. The head of the KGB-successor agency offers that same conviction in a formal briefing to President Bo...
Sep 16, 1999 / Feature / Matt Bivens
Robbing Russia Robbing Russia
Finally, the rampant corruption at the core of Russia's post-Communist transformation is front-page news.
Sep 16, 1999 / The Editors