March 15, 2004
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Feature
And the Winner Is…. Schwarzenegger, Again
Thanks to the front-loaded primary process handcrafted by their party chairman, Terry McAuliffe, the millions of California’s Democratic voters were reduced to ratifying an election that seems to
Marc Cooper
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Get This Party Started
Music for America (MfA), a nonprofit group working to get out the youth vote in the hope of unseating George W.
Hillary Frey
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How Edison Survived
Discredited and broke, the school privatizer found an unlikely white knight.
David Moberg
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Letter From Paris
In the form of a law regarding the wearing of the Islamic hijab, women’s bodies are a battlefield–again.
Maria Margaronis
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Holy Matrimony!
As politicians square off on gay marriage, progressives must enter the debate.
Lisa Duggan
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What’s Right With Kerry
At key moments, he’s displayed guts and taken tough, sometimes lonely, positions.
David Corn
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Editorial
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Undemocratic Process
There has been much comment about the take-no-prisoners approach of the Congressional Republican leadership in cramming through the Medicare prescription-drug benefit this past November 22.
Wayne S. Smith
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Was Strom a Rapist?
Months after Strom Thurmond's African-American daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, stepped into history, commentators continue to step around the most explosive aspect of this controversy wi
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
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Press Watch
The conduct of our major newspapers in the run-up to the Iraq war calls to mind William Hazlitt’s famous appraisal of the Times of London.
Scott Sherman
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Candidate Nader
Ralph Nader got a lot of things right when he appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and accused “Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush and their cohorts from Tallahassee to the Supreme Court” of steali
The Editors
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Column
More Mad Cow, Ambien & Universal Healthcare
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Dr. Marc Siegel
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A Passion for Hatred That Mocks Christ’s Message
Mel Gibson’s movie is a blood libel against the Jewish people.
Robert Scheer
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Novak’s No Patriot (or Journalist)
Journalists are understandably loath to call on a colleague to give up a source who’s been promised anonymity, as the credibility of the entire profession can suffer from such a public betrayal.
Eric Alterman
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Toothpaste, Cough Drops, Aspirin, Contraception
Please forward widely: “An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception,” by Katha Pollitt and Jennifer Baumgardner
Katha Pollitt
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Farewell, Howard Dean
A vote of thanks is due to Dr. Dean,
A comet on the presidential scene.
Once sure to win, he lost it all instead.
He made mistakes, but still it should be saidCalvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
A Passion for Hatred That Mocks Christ’s Message
Mel Gibson’s movie is a blood libel against the Jewish people.
Robert Scheer
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Blind Faith
From the moment when Mel Gibson began promoting The Passion of the Christ–was it only ten years ago?–he has insisted that his goal was to be true to the Gospel text.
Stuart Klawans
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The Pleasures of Crime
Despite their indifference to genre fiction, American publishers of literary novels have consistently made exceptions for homegrown crime writers.
Hillary Frey
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The End of the Affair
It’s been a while since Cuba, that caiman-shaped Caribbean isle, ceased to be a place on the map.
Achy Obejas
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The Old Couple
Please tell me how the shoehorn manages to keep
Its shape the same for centuries. At dusk my ignorance
Slips away and hides its eggs in the woods.Robert Bly
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The Wages of Fear
Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty in his State of the Union Message exactly forty years ago.
Katherine S. Newman
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Was Strom a Rapist?
Months after Strom Thurmond's African-American daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, stepped into history, commentators continue to step around the most explosive aspect of this controversy wi
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
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Letters
Springtime for Hitler?
The editor‘s note “disagreeing profoundly” with Alexander Cockburn‘s January 26 “Beat
Alexander Cockburn and Our Readers