Advanced Search Results For "human rights"
Neo-McCain.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 10/16/2006, Vol. 235 Issue 16, p15-21. 6p. 1 Illustration.
Abstract: The article wonders whether John McCain will be able to change his stance on the Iraq War. Following his imprisonment in Vietnam, McCain tempered his gung ho militarism with a realist doctrine of defense in the national interest. By 1998, McCain was ad...
Slide Rules. (cover story)
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 3/13/2006, Vol. 234 Issue 9, p11-14. 4p.
Abstract: The article reports that by definition Iraq is in the midst of a civil war and has been ever since the first year of the "post-war" era in 2003. Since the United Iraqi Alliance took control of the government in 2005, there has been an increase in death...
Force Full.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 3/3/2003, Vol. 228 Issue 8, p28. 4p.
Abstract: Liberals are torn by the dual impulses of protecting human rights on the one hand and restraining U.S. hegemony on the other. The question in 2003, in light of the impending war in Iraq, is whether the United States is structurally capable of using it...
Dirty War. (cover story)
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 11/11/2002, Vol. 227 Issue 20, p18-21. 4p. 1 Color Photograph.
Abstract: Highlights the move of countries allied to the U.S. allies in the war on terrorism to implement drastic methods to deal with suspected terrorists and political oppositions as of November 2002. Allegation of human rights violations committed by the all...
On Human Dignity.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 1/28/2002, Vol. 226 Issue 3, p23-26. 4p.
Abstract: Focuses on the letter in response to an appreciate letter from George Kennan about the essay "Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century" which appeared in the mid century issue of the journal "Foreign Affairs" in 1950. Discussion of the Soviet regime du...
Milosevic's Willing Executioners. (cover story)
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 05/10/99, Vol. 220 Issue 19, p26-35. 6p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
Abstract: Asserts that the Serbian people are willing accomplices to the ethnic cleansing done by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo, Serbia. Reference to Serbian indifference to the murder of Bosnian Muslims in Kamenica; Active and passive support ...
CORRESPONDENCE.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 11/30/98, Vol. 219 Issue 22, p4-61. 4p.
Abstract: Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues of the journal "The New Republic." Problem associated with traditional intelligence tests; Issues concerning Amnesty International's campaign against human rig...
THE SUCCESSION.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 09/14/98-09/21/98, Vol. 219 Issue 11/12, p23-28. 6p.
Abstract: Alleges that a flawed U.S. foreign policy towards Afghanistan is the reason for the presence of terrorists in the country that are perpetrating human rights abuses against the Afghans as of September 1998. Discussion on the history of U.S. foreign pol...
FOR WHOM BELL TOLLS.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 3/1/93, Vol. 208 Issue 9, p17-21. 5p.
Abstract: Profiles Derrick Bell, professor at the New York University Law School. Family; Education; Career history; Controversy concerning Bell's decision to leave his tenured position at Harvard Law School because of the school's refusal to offer tenure to a b...
THE SOFTNESS OF REASON.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 7/13/92 - 7/20/92, Vol. 207 Issue 3/4, p26-35. 6p.
Abstract: Focuses on controversies about gays and gay studies in the U.S. Denial of Supreme Court of due process rights to a gay man; Argument pertaining to the norm of manliness in society; Role of emotions in legal reasoning and on issues pertaining to gay civ...