Communism

AP photos The un-American way of life

A controversial new history of Communism suggests that most everything we think we know about it is wrong
By Andrew O'Hehir Jul 3, 2009

  • Tiananmen silence turns 20

    Two decades after the massacre in Beijing, the event remains a taboo in China.
    By Andreas Lorenz June 4, 2009

  • The schizophrenic Obama

    Is the president selling out the working man, or waging class warfare on behalf of the proletariat? Because surely he can't be doing both at the same time?
    By Andrew Leonard March 31, 2009

  • It's a seafood-couscous Christmas!

    Vivid Arab-French immigrant yarn "Secret of the Grain" is a near-masterpiece; fascinating Brecht documentary "Theater of War" describes one.
    By Andrew O'Hehir December 24, 2008

  • The man who shook the Kremlin

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died this week, was instrumental in bringing the Soviet Union to its knees, and he never wavered from his belief in a writer's moral responsibility to truth and beauty.
    By Alexander Nazaryan August 5, 2008

  • The end of history, or the beginning?

    A reflection on current affairs
    By Andrew Leonard September 18, 2008

  • What John McCain didn't learn in Vietnam

    In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the former POW insists we could have won. No wonder he talks of occupying Iraq for a century.
    By Joe Conason July 4, 2008

  • Dalton Trumbo and American evil

    How the legendary screenwriter of "Roman Holiday" and "Spartacus" defied Congress, broke the blacklist and raised his family.
    By Andrew O'Hehir June 26, 2008

  • The Little Tramp's killer comedy

    How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece.
    By Andrew O'Hehir June 12, 2008

  • Boisterous Boris

    Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Helen Thomas and others recall Russian President Yeltsin's confidence, rough charm and liberal ways with drink.
    By Dana Cook April 23, 2007

  • "The Lives of Others"

    This Academy Award-nominated film explores life in East Berlin under the Stasi -- and what it means to be human.
    By Stephanie Zacharek February 9, 2007

  • Should I stick with a failing business out of loyalty to my boss?

    I could jump ship, but it doesn't quite feel right.
    By Cary Tennis January 16, 2007

  • The Wal-Mart dialectic

    For business reasons, Wal-Mart allows Communists to get organized. Meanwhile, China's middle class gets restive
    By Andrew Leonard December 18, 2006

  • Mugged by reality

    Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 14, 2006

  • I was a Commie rock star from Colorado

    A fascinating biography of Dean Reed, the "Johnny Cash of Communism," tells a particularly strange tale of East meeting West.
    By Sarah Goldstein July 14, 2006

  • The human monster

    The best biography yet of Joseph Stalin traces his life from abused child to murderous dictator -- and forces us to ask whether he could have taken a different path.
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 5, 2005

  • Rewriting the script

    Unlike the current occupant of the White House, Reagan was willing to improvise on the far-right script, which is what ultimately saved his presidency.
    By Sidney Blumenthal June 10, 2004

  • "There are leftists, but there is no left"

    In These Times founder James Weinstein on the American left's "long detour" with communism, its current crisis, and the hope he sees in Howard Dean.
    By Joan Walsh October 30, 2003

  • The logic of illogic

    In "Stasiland," writer Anna Funder talks to former members of the Stasi -- the communist East German security apparatus -- and to the people whose lives they destroyed.
    By Charles Taylor June 25, 2003

  • "Radical Hollywood" by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner

    Two academics are so eager to find socialist themes in classic Hollywood films that they wind up lending credence to McCarthyism.
    By Michelle Goldberg June 4, 2002

  • Ken Lay's un-American activities

    There is only one force that could be responsible for this man's undermining of the capitalist system!
    By Andrew Leonard February 6, 2002

  • Havana online

    In Cuba, black market Internet access makes it easier for prostitutes to get connected than doctors.
    By David Lipschultz October 10, 2001

  • From each according to his IPO

    Stalin would have loved Silicon Valley's dot-communists. Too bad they got purged.
    By James Grimmelmann April 25, 2001

  • Vetting the "Tiananmen Papers"

    Berkeley professor Orville Schell discusses his role in the publication of papers that shed new light on the Chinese government's crackdown on the 1989 student uprising.
    By Daryl Lindsey February 2, 2001

  • Cambodian justice

    Twenty-five years after Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge launched its genocide campaign, could a war-crimes trial finally be a reality?
    By Vivienne Walt December 18, 2000
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