T he passengers on the morning commuter train from San Francisco to Silicon Valley, who look young enough to be carded at happy hour, are clad in shin-length, hip-hugging jeans and trendy pleather jackets, bopping their bleached-blond heads in time with the music from their CDman players. Although they may excel at office foosball and […]
Alyssa Rayman-Read
Alyssa Rayman-Read is a former American Prospect writing fellow.
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Utah Defends Missionary Position
Conservative leaders in Utah do not want to follow the rules of Florida math–that is, the precept that the first count is the best one, no matter how incomplete. The state of Utah, led by its Republican governor and five congressmen, has filed suit in federal court demanding a recount of Census 2000 numbers. The […]
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Bracing for the Long Haul
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | Australia | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Asia Soul Searching The Asian press asks both its public and government officials to look inward and search for meaning in the current state of the world. Why, many opinion writers have begun to explore, […]
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Fears of Anarchy Amid Taliban Ruins
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Asia Fears of Anarchy Amid Taliban Ruins It has been nearly two weeks since the Afghan power sharing agreement was reached in Bonn, Germany, and almost one week since Hamid Karzai, the man designated as Afghanistan’s transitional […]
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Afghanistan Rebuilds as Israel Crumbles
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Asia Peace At Last? Asia’s newspapers are filled with detailed analysis of the Afghan power sharing agreement signed this week in Bonn, Germany. Response to the carefully brokered deal — which sets up a transition government led […]
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The International Anthrax Scare
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive ASIA Afghanistan The Leaders : Afghanistan’s political future is getting heavy treatment in most Afghan papers and media outlets. Papers cite reports of defections within the Taliban, raising hopes in the U.S. and Pakistan for possible future […]
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Fanning the Flames
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas International Commentary Column Archive The Middle East The response of a country or a leader to the Israel-Palestine conflict is the barometer of justice used by many Mideast commentators. Adel Darwish, in the MIDEASTNEWS surveys the Arab coverage of the terrorist attacks, […]
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War on Many Fronts
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Middle East and Africa The PR Campaign Heats Up In the Middle East region, the spin is all the buzz. Or the buzz is all the spin. As public opinion in favor of the Afghan invasion wavers, […]
