Power

The world is suspicous of our motives in Iraq, and not without reason. A brief history of bad intentions.

An Israeli discusses the danger to Israel posed by Gulf War II.

A brief history of the world's most famous plastic explosive.

It's the end of the world as we know it — and Dick Cheney feels fine.

What they forgot to tell us while we were on the road to war.

I've got this Enron stock you may want to buy, too…

Uncle Sam wants you — and anything else he can get his mitts on.

War in Central Asia, turmoil in the Middle East — it would seem that Europe might be the least of our worries. Not to conservatives, though, who can find the sources of most world trouble lying in the mindset of our transatlantic allies.

Bush's handlers say the president is reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics these days. A look at the 2003 Budget shows he doesn't understand it.

What the President — and his country — still don't understand about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Oil interests are crowding the vacuum left by the Afghan war, and if the US isn't careful, it might get locked out of the profits.

For forty years, the only thing we have been able to do about Cuba is lie.

The menaces we have to fear are not in phantoms, but in ourselves.

Thoughts and facts on Europe's far-right.

What it means — and what it doesn't.

Was last month's failed coup in Venezuela Bush's mini-Bay of Pigs?

A modern Modest Proposal à la Jonathan Swift.

How the terrorist attacks gave us a fresh chance to address the problem of poverty.

A report from Ramallah on what the US public should know about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Politics out of a gun barrel.