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What Women Vote For What Women Vote For

The question about the so-called "women's vote" is generally phrased: How will the women vote? The answer to that is too easy. Women vote just as men vote.

Mar 5, 2002 / Elizabeth Hawes

Organizing for Social Change After Suffrage Organizing for Social Change After Suffrage

Now that women have the vote, what will they do with it?

Mar 5, 2002 / Stella Crossley Daljord

W.’s First Enron Connection: Update on the Bush-Enron Oil Deal W.’s First Enron Connection: Update on the Bush-Enron Oil Deal

Editor's note: Below is David Corn's article, posted on March 4, 2002, that first broke news of the Bush-Enron oil deal. An update follows. Did Geor...

Mar 4, 2002 / David Corn

A ‘Second Front’ in the Philippines A ‘Second Front’ in the Philippines

America called on its former colony to fill the bill for a sequel to Al Qaeda.

Feb 28, 2002 / Feature / Walden Bello

‘New Mideast Approach’: Flawed? ‘New Mideast Approach’: Flawed?

'New Mideast Approach': Flawed? Elkhorn, Neb. There are many grave problems with Jerome M. Segal's "A New Middle East Approach" [Jan. 28]. I will discuss two....

Feb 28, 2002 / Our Readers

On the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence On the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence

The OSI's intent to disinform Received responses that were less than warm. The Pentagon now says it doesn't need An office just to lie and to mislead. There is, though, one f...

Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

H. Rap Brown/Jamil Al-Amin: A Profoundly American Story H. Rap Brown/Jamil Al-Amin: A Profoundly American Story

Die Nigger Die!, the autobiographical political memoir by H. Rap Brown, is a vital American historical document--historical almost in the sense of a message found in a time capsu...

Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ekwueme Michael Thelwell

Justice, Not So Swift Justice, Not So Swift

On October 31 Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts pardoned five women who had been convicted and executed in the Salem witch trials in 1692. Well, better late than never--what's...

Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Fighting Pickering Fighting Pickering

Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson says it's like this: If judicial nominee Charles Pickering is confirmed by a Democratic Senate, the Bush Administration will have a green ...

Feb 28, 2002 / John Nichols

Vouchers–Phony Choice Vouchers–Phony Choice

Ever since the 1954 Brown decision outlawing "separate but equal" schools, various popular movements have upheld a vision of public schools as essential to democracy and have dem...

Feb 28, 2002 / Barbara Miner

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