Power

John McCain has a lot of independents charged up with his straight talking GOP insurgency. Talk of "McCain Democrats" has the Gore camp sweaty. Alex Zaitchik is afraid all the excitement has blurred our collective sanity.

Black activist Assata Shakur was framed for murder over twenty-five years ago. She has lived in Cuba since 1983, but the New Jersey police department, egged on by Republican governor Christine Todd Whitman and hungry for blood, is recruiting mercenaries to bring her back to "justice" in the States. Here's her story, in her own words.

During the Cold War, NATO protected the European recovery and kept security simple: Washington runs the show. Ten Years after the Fall, the NATO consensus in Europe is breaking up; but what lies beyond NATO? Belgian Jacek Boboli makes the case for an independent Euroarmy.

American expatriate Gwendolyn Albert housed a Gypsie refugee from Kosovo in Prague, here's her story…

The convergence of Planet Hollywood with the levers of State power is nothing new in America.

Forget the Cold War — the next one will zoom past hot to thermonuclear.

The media reform bill up for vote in the Czech Parliament this spring is a hornet's nest of issues, each of which promises to influence Czech society far beyond the bill's pragmatic role as just another EU requirement.

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic? Or the The End of History and the Last Man! Frank Fukuyama makes brief mention of environmental collapse as a possible problem for the stability of the New World Order in the 21st century. The reality is that we need to build another ship more appropriate to the world which we inhabit. Otherwise its Iceberg City baby, and don't expect a sequel.

Every pendulum turns. Maybe Clinton's appalling, planet-wide confession, besides shaming him and us, will ring the curtain down on the Age of Aquarius and the Age of Exposure. Wouldn't that be great?