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  • Genocide, and drug-trafficking too

    The Guatemalan military's war against the Mayans has finally been documented, but the story of its role in the cocaine trade has yet to be fully told.
    By Frank Smyth March 5, 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

  • President Clinton's statement

    President Clinton's statement
    By President Clinton December 17, 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

  • Powerless in Kosovo

    For the west, saber-rattling is cheap, but action is unlikely.
    By Loren Jenkins June 12, 1998

  • African Awakening

    Senegal turns against the tyranny of female genital mutilation.
    By Vivienne Walt June 3, 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: Finish the job? Not in our lifetime

    The U.S. can't "go all the way" in Iraq because Saddam Hussein's neighbors need to keep him around.
    By Jonathan Broder February 23, 1998

  • Newsreal: Still in the balance

    The Kyoto treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may be 'historic,' and may even pay political dividends for America's chief negotiator, Al Gore. But the loophole-studded agreement may not be nearly enough to rescue the planet.
    By Mark Hertsgaard December 12, 1997

  • 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

  • Newsreal: Clinton, Saddam and the hot zone

    A biological warfare expert examines allegations that Iraq possesses a new class of genetically engineered "bioweaponry" that could kill hundreds of thousands of people and terrorize American cities.
    By Jonathan Broder November 11, 1997

  • Media moguls destroy civilization -- more at 10!

    Turner's $1 billion pledge to the U.N. leads Murdoch to retaliate -- nuclear winter settles over Earth -- stocks up sharply.
    By James Poniewozik September 30, 1997

  • Pax Americana

    plus Lucrative Losers and That Old Box Magic
    By Andrew Ross November 12, 1995
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