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Remnants of War

The deadly legacy of America's air war in Laos

  • Kieko Matteson
  • Robert Perkinson

The Two Hundred Years War

The origins of conflict in Yugoslavia. 

  • G. M. Tamás

Identity Politics

Forced deportations threaten to turn the Ethiopian-Eritrean border conflict into ethnic war.

  • Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky

Silence Is Death

An interview with the Rev. Eugene Rivers III.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • Eva T. Thorne

Uncle Franz’s Legacy

A personal history of two Germanies.

  • Vivian Rothstein

On Pinochet

The dictator's extradition and the limits of international law.

  • Paul W. Kahn

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Is Equality Passé?

The welfare state is in trouble not because selfishness is rampant (it is not), but because many egalitarian programs no longer evoke deeply held notions of fairness.

  • Samuel Bowles
  • Herbert Gintis

In Praise of Yaşar Kemal

Günter Grass speaking in 1998. 

  • Günter Grass

Forces of Civility

The NGO revolution and the search for peace.

  • John Tirman

Development—but at What Cost?

An exchange on Jay Mandle's "The Problem with Thinking Locally" (BR, Summer 1998).

  • Shiv Visvanathan
  • Jay Mandle

The Problem with Thinking Locally

Markets need to be reshaped to protect the environment, and such reshaping will require political struggle.

  • Jay Mandle

Hype or Help?

Globalization and the Fight over Labor Standards

  • Alice H. Amsden

An Intervention

Out of the shadow of a wall 15 feet away a pair of men emerged and blocked the sidewalk. 

  • George Packer

A Strange Hybrid

A close look at post-Soviet commercial advertising reveals that market norms never really took hold—even among capitalists.

  • Svetlana Boym

Never Trust Imperialists

What’s really at stake in debates about humanitarian intervention is not human rights, but modern imperialism.

  • Christopher Hitchens

A Walk Into Darkness

The repression of Iranian women.

  • Betty Sosnin
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