Bosnia

McCain's Vietnam obsession McCain's Vietnam obsession

The former POW's Senate career has been marked by his outspoken determination never to repeat Vietnam mistakes. So why does he support the Iraq war?
  • Getting through these dark times

    Foreign policy whiz Samantha Power sheds light on a legendary diplomat killed in Iraq, advising Barack Obama and how America can emerge from the Bush era.
  • Sex and drugs in hell

    The authors of "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" talk about keeping body and soul together in the killing fields of Cambodia, Somalia and Haiti.J
  • Safe area America

    Graphic novelist Joe Sacco goes back to Sarajevo with his powerful new book "The Fixer" -- and talks about why the entire U.S. population should be tried for war crimes.
  • The crisis of the pro-war liberals

    As Iraq deteriorates, some born-again hawks like Christopher Hitchens are still waving their sabers -- but others are skulking toward the rear.
  • Sex-slave whistle-blowers vindicated

    DynCorp, a private military powerhouse, fired two employees who complained that colleagues were involved in Bosnian forced-prostitution rings. The employees went to court -- and won.
  • Crime without punishment

    Investigators knew employees for U.S. military contractors in Bosnia bought women as sex slaves. But because of legal loopholes and bureaucratic confusion, no one was prosecuted.
  • My neighbor, the war criminal

    An author who followed the lives of survivors in Rwanda and Bosnia talks about how people and nations learn to go on after they've suffered the unthinkable.
  • Can we rebuild Afghanistan?

    There is no Marshall Plan for this tattered nation, and the lessons of trying to fix Cambodia, Bosnia and Somalia aren't inspiring.
  • The mystery cure

    A simple approach to treating trauma has had spectacular results in the wake of tragedies in Oklahoma, Bosnia and Littleton. Will EMDR help in New York?
  • Bread instead of soldiers

    On the front lines of war, humanitarian-aid workers do the work of diplomats -- but some say they should stay away from politics.
  • Battle without blood

    Michael Ignatieff talks about the poison of nationalism, the politics of fear and the strange future of war.
  • More spilled spaghetti

    Aleksandar Hemon, author of "The Question of Bruno," talks about his favorite spies and the need for messiness in American fiction.
  • Espionage and exile

    Bosnian immigrant Aleksandar Hemon brilliantly mingles grand history and personal story in his debut collection.
  • James Nachtwey's "Inferno"

    Pictures from an exhibition -- in hell.
  • Bird's-eye view

    On the way to film school, I spent a week in the former Yugoslavia. Amid the rubble, I found that movies provide a strange entree to real-life devastation.
  • "Terminus"

    A harrowing poem about rape and murder in the Balkans.
  • The truth about vaginas

    After playing God in the film "Dogma," rock's goddess of angst will star in an off-Broadway play about female genitalia.
  • Payoffs, fear and bloody conflict

    With his usual bag of dirty tricks, Slobodan Milosevic looks to be preparing Serbia to reelect him.
  • "S.: A Novel About the Balkans" by Slavenka Drakulic

    A fierce novel brings home the horrors of the Bosnian war -- rape, torture and the sexual slavery of Muslim women.
  • "My War Gone By, I Miss It So" by Anthony Loyd

    A jaded British correspondent feeds his smack habit in Bosnia and Chechnya.
  • Croatia after Tudjman

    The death of the Croatian leader marks the end of an era in the Balkans and leaves the future of the country, and the region, uncertain.
  • War torn

    Aleksandar Zograf's comics offer a bleak, hilarious, haunted perspective on life in Serbia.
  • "Black Cat, White Cat"

    A Felliniesque farce boasts the many talents of Emir Kusturica, a director still making ambitious, individualistic movies like they matter.
  • Waging diplomatic war

    NATO is dictating a peace deal at the U.N. that will virtually guarantee Kosovo's future independence.
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