War

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  • The invention of peace

    A leading military scholar talks about what caused the world wars, why Kissinger was a true peacemaker and whether peace is incompatible with human nature.
    By Suzy Hansen April 12, 2001

  • Waiting for Slobo

    Has Milosevic really been arrested? While The Hague waits to try him, a ragged troop of loyalists still stands behind the fallen dictator.
    By Alex Todorovic March 31, 2001

  • Colin Powell rolls up his sleeves

    On his trip to the Middle East next week, Bush's secretary of state will face an escalating conflict that he never intended to mediate.
    By Ben Barber February 16, 2001

  • The Htoo twins come in from the cold

    Myanmar's legendary child rebel leaders are like toxic cherubim, confusing our moral senses.
    By Lawrence Weschler January 29, 2001

  • Clock running out on Clinton's Mideast legacy

    Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat makes a last-minute trip to Washington to clarify a Clinton-proposed peace deal with Israel.
    By Flore de Préneuf January 3, 2001

  • Ground zero in the Colombian drug war

    The U.S.-backed Plan Colombia will soon touch down in a region battered by civil war and central to the cocaine trade -- will it ignite the conflict?
    By Ana Arana December 5, 2000

  • Barak's fate depends on peace

    By calling for early elections, the embattled Israeli prime minister buys a little time, but also places his fate in the hands of Yasser Arafat.
    By Flore de Préneuf November 30, 2000

  • Serbia's culture shock

    With the media liberated from Milosevic's control, the nation begins to face its demons -- but propagandists and journalists are in a tug of war.
    By Laura Rozen October 31, 2000

  • The mystery of courage

    A scholar of bravery talks about the virtue that's hard to find and impossible to define and why it kept John McCain from being elected.
    By Laura Miller October 25, 2000

  • Propping up the walls

    As international support for Kosovar independence wanes, hatred still seethes between Albanians and Serbs. And the U.N. oversees their division.
    By Richard Blow October 23, 2000

  • The children's war in the Middle East

    By Flore de Prineuf
    By   October 20, 2000

  • "It's just something on paper"

    Palestinians and Israelis alike question the outcome of Clinton's Middle East peace summit.
    By Flore de Préneuf October 18, 2000

  • Asel is gone

    After a popular, peace-loving Israeli Arab teen is shot dead by police, his family and friends -- both Jewish and Arab -- wrestle with what his loss means for Israel.
    By Flore de Preneuf October 7, 2000

  • Violence erupts in the Holy Land

    Desperation fuels an ominous round of fighting in the Holy Land. Has the Mideast peace process finally blown apart?
    By Flore de Preneuf October 3, 2000

  • The sound of silence

    Heartsick over the bloodshed in Israel, liberal American Jews are so far paralyzed by a conflict in which Palestinians are aggressors as well as victims.
    By Samuel G. Freedman October 3, 2000

  • Election offensive

    Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has called presidential elections for later this month, but his actions show he intends to hold on to power.
    By Laura Rozen September 6, 2000

  • 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.
    By Laura Rozen August 7, 2000

  • The Nazis, er, the Redcoats are coming!

    The savage soldiers in "The Patriot" act more like the Waffen SS than actual British troops. Does this movie have an ulterior motive?
    By Jonathan Foreman July 3, 2000

  • Returning to a place we've never seen

    Frances FitzGerald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Fire in the Lake," says Americans still get Vietnam wrong because we can't stop looking at our collective American navel.
    By Fiona Morgan April 28, 2000

  • What did we learn from Vietnam? Part 2

    Author Todd Gitlin, filmmaker Freida Lee Mock and journalist Andrew Lam on the lasting effects of the war.
    By Fiona Morgan April 25, 2000

  • Looking back on Vietnam

    Salon presents a week-long retrospective on the war and its consequences, at home and abroad.
    By Fiona Morgan April 24, 2000

  • Paranoid city

    Belgrade is gripped by rumors that NATO is about to begin bombing again.
    By Laura Rozen March 15, 2000

  • 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.
    By José Klein March 15, 2000

  • Sometimes sorry isn't good enough

    The pope's vague act of contrition does nothing to address the Vatican's pro-war policies.
    By Colman McCarthy March 15, 2000

  • Witness for the persecution

    Croatian novelist and journalist Slavenka Drakulic tells a story of breathtaking brutality. We interview her about her new novel and her experiences.
    By Kate Moses March 9, 2000
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