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Reinventing “we the peoples”
Ian Williams
Kofi Annan proposes the first major reforms of the U.N. since it was created 60 years ago, and he knows they won't please everyone.
Death penalty for I.V. drug users
Maia Szalavitz
The Bush administration is considering imposing a gag rule on U.S.-funded groups that provide clean needles to addicts, despite their huge success in preventing the spread of HIV.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
A Kazakh "Rebel Without a Cause"; a ruthless mockumentary about a mail-order bride; and the sleeper documentary hit "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill."
The Washington establishment fails Logic 101
Arianna Huffington
Politicians and pundits who attribute changes in the Middle East to the American invasion are living in a fairy tale.
Iceboy cometh
Dana Vachon
Call him talented, call him Tinkerbell, just don't call him Esther: Skater Johnny Weir talks about training, Kabbala and Michelle Kwan's dowdy look.
Rising death toll in Sudan
Ewen MacAskill, Jeevan Vasagar
Nearly a year after the U.N. described Darfur as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, starvation and disease are growing, and the deadlock on sanctions continues.
Running on empty
Robert Bryce
The leading energy analysts who foretold Enron's demise have an alarming new claim: The world's major oil companies are almost tapped out.
All democracy, all the time
John Feffer
A new bill proposes to rid the world of dictators by 2025. But critics deride it as a pie-in-the-sky cover for Bush's failures.
Rumblings in Russia
Simon Tisdall
Chess player Gary Kasparov announces his run for president in 2008, and another politician expected to challenge Putin calls for a return to democratic values.
The new Cold War
Page Rockwell
Russia and the U.S. remain friendly, but are engaged in a Cold War-style arms race.
“The sense of expectation is palpable”
Ewen MacAskill
Palestinian leader Abbas warns at a meeting in London that without direct talks with Israel the fragile peace could be broken.
Bush and Putin’s theater of the absurd
Page Rockwell
A change from memory to history
Ian Traynor
Events marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz are likely to be the last attended by direct witnesses to the Holocaust.
Taunting the Kremlin
Ian Traynor
Yushchenko names a billionaire populist -- a woman who played a key role in the "orange" revolution -- as Ukraine's prime minister.
All the president’s fantasies
Joe Conason
In his florid inaugural address, Bush proved that he's still living in his own private Idaho -- unwilling to acknowledge the bloody consequences of his policies.
Our three friends
Ewen MacAskill
Of 21 nations polled by the BBC, only people in the Philippines, Poland and India view Bush's reelection positively. And the world's dislike of the president is turning into a dislike of Americans generally.
Misleading by example
Julian Borger, Richard Norton-Taylor, Suzanne Goldenberg
A watchdog group's report decries U.S. prisoner abuse, saying "the pictures from Abu Ghraib have become the recruiting posters for Terrorism, Inc."
The buried village
Jeff Greenwald
A "Dateline" film crew gets in the way as I make my way to a former surfing hot spot, where families line up for hygiene kits, and a hotel owner, who reminds me of Lenny Bruce, reclaims fishing boats.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Fox News' Sean Hannity rips U.N. official over tsunami relief comment, wants him fired. Too bad his facts are wrong. And: Why is a right-winger singing from the same choir as Michael Moore?
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Two good reads: Compelling bios of boxer Jack Johnson and jockey Jimmy Winkfield bring two of America's early black sports heroes to life.
2004: Things to forget
Arianna Huffington
After a year of calamities ranging from Lynndie England posing with a leash to a $413 billion deficit, Jan. 1 has never looked so good.
Vlad the terrible
Walter Mayr
Two years ago Russia's Vladimir Putin was a celebrated champion of democracy. Now he's being called "the Mussolini of Moscow."
Unlawful discrimination
Michael White, Alan Travis, Clare Dyer
Britain's highest court rules that the unlimited detention of foreign terror suspects is "the real threat to the life of the nation."
Romania’s orange alert
Simon Tisdall
Traian Basescu's victory signals closer ties between Eastern Europe and the West, and further isolation for Russia.
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