The Vietnam Peace The Vietnam Peace
The President has gone to Vietnam, A smallish country that we used to bomb But now would like to send our products to. And so our corporations take the view That if the count...
Nov 27, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Antiwar and Proud of It Antiwar and Proud of It
The throngs of Vietnamese who hailed Bill Clinton as "the antiwar President" demonstrated that they as a people remember something that we as a people have chosen to forget. It i...
Nov 27, 2000 / H. Bruce Franklin
The American Conscience The American Conscience
This essay, from the December 12, 1969, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on...
Nov 22, 2000 / The Editors
Time of the Intifada Time of the Intifada
All the way up the West Bank, from Ramallah and Nablus to Jenin, the remains of burned tires litter the road. The iron-shuttered shops and empty streets and the high-speed Israel...
Nov 2, 2000 / Robert Fisk
For Whom the Gong Tolls For Whom the Gong Tolls
If you stand in Tiananmen Square and keep your eyes open on a normal day, you will see the tour groups with their "keep together" flags, and the long line waiting to see ...
Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
America and the World: The End of Easy Dominance America and the World: The End of Easy Dominance
In the more trying period ahead, a modest internationalism would fare best.
Nov 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Sherle R. Schwenninger
Borderline Justice Borderline Justice
In their 1996 book The Next War, former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Peter Schweitzer concoct some troubling scenarios they imagine could confront the United States...
Nov 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Nevins
A Postcard From Arad A Postcard From Arad
Arad, where I live, is a small, out-of-the-way town in the Negev desert, in southern Israel. There are Jews and Arabs living here, but so far it has been surprisingly quiet. Not ...
Nov 2, 2000 / Amos Oz
Anthropologists as Spies Anthropologists as Spies
Collaboration occurred in the past, and there’s no professional bar to it today.
Nov 2, 2000 / Feature / David Price
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