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December 15, 2003 Issue
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Editorial
Fiasco in Miami
It was as though US and Brazilian trade negotiators feared that if they spent one more minute in Miami, the fragile image of harmony they have struggled to project would shat...
Killing Medicare
The Medicare "reform" legislation just passed by Congress sends the program on a path to destruction.
Column
Adam and Steve–Together at Last
Will someone please explain to me how permitting gays and lesbians to marry threatens the institution of marriage?
The Century of the ‘Son of a Bitch’
Errol Morris: After you left the Johnson Administration, why didn't you speak out against the Vietnam War?
Letters
Letters
Alexander Cockburn and Naomi Klein and Our Readers and Esther Kaplan
Books & the Arts
In Our Orbit
One of the nation's finest historians, Studs Terkel has told the story of twentieth-century America through the voices of ordinary people.
Second Comings
To the fleet of symbolic vehicles currently cruising the screen--their number includes the "Pussy Wagon" that Uma Thurman (in Kill Bill) coldly claims as her own--we ma...
Not Beloved
Toni Morrison's slim new novel, Love, may seem, at first glance, to fit within a group of books one could crudely call Morrison Lite, not requiring any heavy lifting fr...
Sacred Rage
Since 9/11, terror has become one of the most fashionable issues on both the American and the international agenda, and almost every publisher has rushed to publish a book wri...
The Century of the ‘Son of a Bitch’
Errol Morris: After you left the Johnson Administration, why didn't you speak out against the Vietnam War?
