Democracy

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  • Bringing down the house

    Innovative gadgets make it easier than ever to rid the country of pesky democracy!
    By Joyce McGreevy January 7, 2005

  • A blessing and a curse

    Upon the death of Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian journalist he jailed sums up the legendary leader's ambiguous legacy.
    By Daoud Kuttab November 11, 2004

  • World bank of ideas

    While the U.S. is busy exporting democracy to Iraq, it should be importing some best democratic practices from the rest of the world, too.
    By Eric Weiner August 6, 2004

  • "America's blankness"

    A professor explains why so many people around the world hate us and what a post-Bush foreign policy might look like.
    By Stephen Holmes June 17, 2004

  • Enter the ayatollahs

    Will Iraq turn into an Iranian-style theocracy or a more tolerant Muslim state? As zero hour for America's grand experiment approaches, Shiite leaders hold the key.
    By Jen Banbury January 30, 2004

  • The dangers of democracy

    When people in fledgling democracies vote against U.S. interests, the CIA steps in.
    By Robert Scheer November 12, 2003

  • Machiavellis running amok

    This administration's behavior is an affront to our nation's founders and the democracy they crafted.
    By Robert Scheer June 25, 2003

  • Rebuilding Iraq

    American officials are squabbling over how to put post-Saddam Iraq back together again. The fate of the entire region may rest on whether they get it right.
    By Laura Miller April 2, 2003

  • "World On Fire" by Amy Chua

    A new book argues that when Third World countries embrace democracy and free markets too quickly, ethnic hatred and even genocide can result.
    By Michelle Goldberg January 13, 2003

  • Islam: Religion of the sword?

    Unlike Christianity or Judaism, Islam's religious history is inseparable from its conquests -- which is why the concept of holy war lives on today.
    By Richard D. Connerney October 11, 2001

  • Tough love for Africa

    Colin Powell gets a hero's welcome and tells Africa's entrenched rulers to step aside.
    By Ben Barber May 28, 2001

  • The postmodernist problem

    George Will advocates turning the NEA into the Ministry of Politprop; the "South Park" duo agrees to excise the Bush twins from a new program. Plus: Free to be you and me except on Nike iD.
    By Carina Chocano February 8, 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

  • Shutting down the Tehran Spring

    How religious hard-liners sabotaged reforms in Iran and earned the spite of their people.
    By Ben Barber January 11, 2001

  • George W. Bush flunks the test

    Faced with a choice between cynicism and a higher path, he chooses cynicism.
    By Gary Kamiya November 16, 2000

  • Making the world safe for democracy?

    From the streets of Paris to offices in Japan, the world chuckles and shrugs at the U.S. election circus.
    By Salon foreign correspondents November 10, 2000

  • Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind

    Noam Chomsky -- Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind
    By Noam Chomsky October 5, 2000

  • Outlaws in an outlaw nation

    With Yugoslav election time approaching, Serbian activists face a new wave of repression as they try to fight the Milosevic regime from within.
    By Laura Rozen September 6, 2000

  • War on protesters

    The militarization of police strategies on display this convention season has cops fighting demonstrators, not crime.
    By Jesse Walker August 14, 2000

  • Fox is it

    President-elect Vicente Fox, a tough-talking cowboy and former head of Coca-Cola Mexico, promises to revolutionize the nation's economy after 71 years of corruption.
    By Scarlet Pruitt July 7, 2000

  • A wrench in the "ruling party machine"

    One frustrated journalist in Mexico City speaks out about the censorship imposed by his publisher's quid pro quo relationship with the PRI.
    By Fiona Morgan June 28, 2000

  • World Bank and IMF: Good, evil or irrelevant?

    On the eve of the A16 protests, experts discuss the roles of the international financial organizations and the Seattle protests in this weekend's battle over globalization.
    By Daryl Lindsey April 14, 2000

  • Better dead than red, white and blue

    By electing Vladimir Putin president, Russians chose a product of the same repressive police state that has cost millions of lives -- because being a superpower is better than being a Western plaything.
    By Jeffrey Tayler March 28, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    Are American voters ignorant -- or just apathetic? Plus: Shuttling blame for declining sex drive; polluting Bob Marley's legacy
    Letters to the Editor December 1, 1999

  • Is voter ignorance killing democracy?

    Some political scientists say it is; others maintain that a brain-dead populace does no damage to our hallowed political system.
    By Christopher Shea November 22, 1999
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