Henry Kissinger usually has an easy time defending the
indefensible on national television. But he faced some pointed questions
during a recent interview with the PBS "NewsHour" about the U.S. role in
bringing a military dictatorship to...
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15 February 2001
The power to depict history is entangled with the power to create
it. George Orwell observed long ago: "Who controls the past controls the
future; who controls the present controls the past." And so it is in 2001,
as American media...
08 February 2001
In Africa, 17 million people have already died of AIDS. In
developing countries around the world, twice that many are now HIV
positive. Such statistics are largely unfathomable. And news accounts
rarely explore basic options for halting...
01 February 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- Welcome to George W. Bush's world of fuzzy policy thinking. If you find yourself confused, befuddled or confounded by his recent proposals, don't worry about a thing. You understand them perfectly. They just don't make...
01 February 2001
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- The question, from a participant here at
the World Social Forum, was polite and understated: "Sometimes, one wonders
if the poor political consciousness and the lack of information about the
world of the standard...
30 January 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- Now that Texas and George W. Bush have parted company, things are looking up deep in the heart. In fact, a positively astonishing number of good bills actually have a chance of passing this session, and I think we owe it...
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