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In Kind In Kind

As of this writing, seven in ten Americans want Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to remain at his post, a vote of confidence that exceeds that even for the President himself.

May 13, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

On April 28 the subject of torture was discussed in oral arguments before the Supreme Court.

May 13, 2004 / Jonathan Schell

A Nation of WASPs? A Nation of WASPs?

A Nation of WASPs?

May 13, 2004 / Earl Shorris

Straight, Not Narrow Straight, Not Narrow

In the early 1980s, soon after the right-wing grassroots movement gave us a Reagan presidency, I announced that I would be boycotting my straight friends' weddings.

May 13, 2004 / John Scagliotti

Conditions of Atrocity Conditions of Atrocity

Even before the Congressional hearings on the criminal abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, Colin Powell brought up My Lai, the Vietnamese village where, in 1968, Ame...

May 13, 2004 / Robert Jay Lifton

‘Dead Man Walking’ ‘Dead Man Walking’

"The unthinkable is becoming thinkable," neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan despaired recently in the Washington Post.

May 13, 2004 / The Editors

Bhopal’s Legacy Bhopal’s Legacy

Every December for the past nineteen years, marchers in Bhopal, India, have paraded an effigy of Warren Anderson through town and burned it. Anderson is despised because he was...

May 6, 2004 / Mark Hertsgaard

The Horror of Abu Ghraib The Horror of Abu Ghraib

"Abu Ghraib prison was used for torture in Saddam's time.

May 6, 2004 / The Editors

All in the Family? All in the Family?

Despite decades of battering by divorce and the proliferation of single-parent households, the family remains a source of inexhaustible fascination.

May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz

Show & Tell in Abu Ghraib Show & Tell in Abu Ghraib

What are the thousand words, I wonder, that are worth the pictures of grinning US soldiers sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison?

May 6, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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