Achille’s Gamble Achille’s Gamble
The P.C.I. has no intention now of attacking capitalism. It has become a social democratic party in all but name.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Fast Forward Fast Forward
The sorcerer's apprentices could not even stage a coup.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
West and East West and East
In Maastricht twelve members of the European Community reached another stage on the road toward some form of union, notably with the pledge to introduce a common currency, the ecu…
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Dawn in Poland Dawn in Poland
Dual power, Lenin wrote, cannot last long. But just how long?
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
La Peste La Peste
François Mitterrand, everything suggests, will be re-elected as President next Sunday, but Jean-Marie Le Pen is the unquestioned winner of the first-round tally.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
The Adolescent Lockup The Adolescent Lockup
Not so long ago politicians campaigned by kissing babies. Today, they lock children in jail.
Jun 19, 1997 / Bruce Shapiro
Kosovo Waits Kosovo Waits
Branko Brudar smiles and tells the new war joke, while carefully placing the Turkish coffee pot on the small office hot plate. "Until when will the Serbs and Croats fight?" goes...
Jan 8, 1993 / Mariana Katzarova
Fred Rodell Fred Rodell
Fred Rodell is largely forgotten these days, but as the "bad boy of American legal academia" he inspired several generations of Yale Law School students to think differently about ...
Jun 21, 1980 / Sidney Zion
Roe v. Wade Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court gives women the right to choose while also rendering an important lesson on the practical workings of democracy.
Feb 5, 1973 / The Editors