By Emily Witt 11/04/11 6:54pm

Book Parties

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Viva la Book Party! A Soiree for Che

In 1995, Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents about the C.I.A.’s involvement in the death of Che Guevara in Bolivia. Years passed — 16 of them — and Mr. Ratner forgot that he had ever sent the letter. But he was still living in the same apartment and one day some documents from the government began trickling in through the mail. With new information he now says definitively dispels “the myth that the United States was not involved in the order to kill Che,” Mr. Ratner decided to write a small book, joining forces with another attorney, Michael Steven Smith, to produce Who Killed Che? How the C.I.A. Got Away with Murder.

On Thursday night their publisher, independent outfit OR Books, held a party to celebrate the book’s publication at the somewhat unusual venue of the Cuban Mission to the United Nations. Read More

By Nate Freeman 8/27/10 6:19pm

Good Times

Cuba to End Cigarette Subsidy (Yes, Subsidy)

Hey, cigarette-addled New Yorkers, want to hear a cruel joke? In Cuba, the current regime will pay you to smoke if you’re old.

Or at least they used to. In a move out of Auntie Bloomberg’s playbook, Raul Castro has decided to end the program that allows Cubans over 55 four packs of smokes a Read More

By Jonathan Miller 11/06/06 12:00am

In New Jersey Contest, A Senator With Tough Friends

UNION CITY, N.J.—In his 30-plus years as a player in New Jersey politics, Senator Robert Menendez has cultivated dozens of friends and allies in positions of influence.

But recently, on Sept. 5, one of his allies, a New Jersey business owner and a major fund-raiser for Mr. Menendez, showed up in a curious place: Read More

By Glenn C. Altschuler 11/06/06 12:00am

A Fanciful Neocon Version Of Our Expansionist History

On July 4, 1821, John Quincy Adams declared that the United States “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.” Wishing freedom for all, America knew that by intervening to support independence for other nations “she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication” in wars of interest and intrigue. “She might become the Read More

By Jonathan Miller 11/06/06 12:00am

In New Jersey Contest, A Senator With Tough Friends

UNION CITY, N.J.—In his 30-plus years as a player in New Jersey politics, Senator Robert Menendez has cultivated dozens of friends and allies in positions of influence.

But recently, on Sept. 5, one of his allies, a New Jersey business owner and a major fund-raiser for Mr. Menendez, showed up in a curious place: in Read More

By Glenn C. Altschuler 11/06/06 12:00am

A Fanciful Neocon Version Of Our Expansionist History

On July 4, 1821, John Quincy Adams declared that the United States “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.” Wishing freedom for all, America knew that by intervening to support independence for other nations “she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication” in wars of interest and intrigue. “She might become the Read More

By Staff 4/06/06 2:49pm

The Smear Campaign, Continued

The intellectual challenge of the Walt-Mearsheimer paper on the power of the Israel lobby is whether Americans are capable of debating the ideas in it without freaking out. So far the answer is: No.

The paper was rejected by the Atlantic, as too hot for this country to hear. And while it has been Read More