14 January 2002

Why it is right to be anti-American

By Nick Cohen

Conservatives used to be the ones who hated the US; the left looked to it for inspiration. All that has changed - and justifiably, argues Nick Cohen

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The search for the vision thing

By Jackie Ashley

You can stay on the straight and narrow Third Way; you can have two Third Ways; or you reach for the Compass. Jackie Ashley sifts the latest ideological options

How viveza brought down a nation

By John Carlin

Argentina's plight should be a warning to us all, argues John Carlin: a get-rich-quick mentality leads to disaster

A saint with a whiff of sulphur

By Andrew Stephen

Will Rudy Giuliani, the hero of 11 September, now go on to the White House? Andrew Stephen on the strengths and flaws of a man who changed from a PR disaster into a national icon

Take their prattle off the screen

By David Cox

The secret of better political broadcasting is not to dumb down, but to put fewer politicians on air, argues David Cox

More downward mobility, please

By Philip Collins

When dull middle-class children sink, and forsake avocado for tinned peas, we shall have a truly fair society, argues Philip Collins

The women who would die for Allah

By Sandra Jordan

In Gaza, a young man dies, but his sisters do not weep, they rejoice. And they insist that they, too, can become suicide bombers. Sandra Jordan reports

The Ken Livingstone of Berlin?

By Jeevan Vasagar

Gregor Gysi, now close to power, may be a communist relic of East Germany, but he is also a talk-show star who gets middle-class votes

The price of a barrel of oil? A few lives

By Ruth West

In Sudan, western companies are bankrolling a vicious civil war

There's nothing like a bad ref to make a game really exciting

By Robert Winder

Blair's meeting with Arafat served to disguise his support for Sharon and the Zionist project

By John Pilger

If we must give honours to business people, let's have a quota and sell them to the highest bidder

By Robert Peston

Would you go out and mix if you risked a good kicking?

By Darcus Howe

Shopping is such a nightmare when there are so many businesses to boycott

By Lauren Booth

Competition - Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store