Kofi Annan

  • The negotiator

    James Traub's examination of Kofi Annan reveals a patient and wily leader who managed to outwit John Bolton and elevate the United Nations.
    By Matt Steinglass December 21, 2006

  • Madame Secretary-General?

    Even with Annan's support, this year -- the U.Ns 61st -- may not be the year of the woman.
    By Lynn Harris September 13, 2006

  • Reinventing "we the peoples"

    Kofi Annan proposes the first major reforms of the U.N. since it was created 60 years ago, and he knows they won't please everyone.
    By Ian Williams March 26, 2005

  • Global gorilla

    Bush's jaw-dropping nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the U.N. is a slap in the world's face.
    By Ian Williams March 9, 2005

  • Honoring failure

    How to run an imperial presidency: Reward those who have failed. Otherwise, the whole charade will be exposed.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 16, 2004

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    Former Sen. Gary Hart says President Bush "didn't do his job" before 9/11. Plus reader responses to Bush's latest baffling reason for the war in Iraq.
    July 16, 2003

  • Bush to Saddam: Get out of Dodge

    In a terse speech to the nation and the world, the president stopped just short of a declaration of war.
    By Jake Tapper March 18, 2003

  • Suddenly, the U.N. backs Bush

    The president's speech left the world governing body little choice but to get tough on Saddam.
    By Ian Williams September 14, 2002

  • Bush: Sharon's lapdog

    The president's conniving in Israel's disgraceful refusal to allow the U.N. to investigate Jenin has brought the rage and contempt of the rest of the world down on both countries.
    By Ian Williams May 2, 2002

  • Can Sharon fend off the U.N.?

    The Israeli prime minister is wrangling with Kofi Annan over the scope of the inquiry into what happened at Jenin, and finds that U.S. backing sometimes has its limits.
    By Aluf Benn April 25, 2002

  • Marilyn Manson predicts better music under Bush

    Goth rocker ready to push the envelope; Dept. of Disposable Tips: Meg Ryan gets love advice from Elizabeth Taylor. Plus: Martha Stewart -- no more dirty underwear!
    By Amy Reiter November 21, 2000

  • A confederacy of dunces

    The GOP-led Congress has pushed the United States to the brink of losing its vote in the United Nations.
    By Ian Williams November 12, 1999

  • Another U.N. disaster

    United Nations ineptitude has paved the way for the current East Timor crisis.
    By Ian Williams September 11, 1999

  • Waging diplomatic war

    NATO is dictating a peace deal at the U.N. that will virtually guarantee Kosovo's future independence.
    By Ian Williams June 9, 1999

  • Counting the dead children

    Critics blast U.S. sanctions that kill Iraqi babies, but leave Saddam fat and happy.
    By Jeff Stein January 15, 1999

  • Airstrikes of mercy

    A lifelong pacifist and former Middle East reporter for the Wall Street Journal on why we should bomb Baghdad.
    By Geraldine Brooks December 19, 1998

  • Baghdad bombing: The right move, the wrong time

    A foreign policy expert says Clinton should have struck sooner -- and argues that U.S. sanctions are propping up Saddam by allowing him to line the pockets of his cronies.
    By Lori Leibovich December 17, 1998

  • Baghdad bombing: The right move, the wrong time

    A foreign policy expert says Clinton should have struck sooner -- and argues that U.S. sanctions are propping up Saddam by allowing him to line the pockets of his cronies.
    By Lori Leibovich December 17, 1998

  • Target: Saddam

    The goal is to bring him down this time, says David Kay, who led the first U.N. inspection team in Iraq.
    By Jeff Stein November 13, 1998

  • Noble words, empty deeds

    The war on drugs will fail so long as the victims don't get help.
    By Lonny Shavelson June 15, 1998

  • Newsreal: Worse than useless

    A former chief weapons inspector explains why the deal the United Nations struck with Saddam Hussein will only help Iraq to keep and develop its weapons of mass destruction.
    By Jeff Stein March 25, 1998

  • Newsreal: The graveyards of hope

    Why has it taken us so long to believe that the new "great hope" of Africa may have been responsible for terrible massacres?
    By Jonathan Broder December 11, 1997
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