Rosenbaum Inquisition Rosenbaum Inquisition
In 2002, Republicans on a House Judiciary subcommittee trained their sights on an unlikely target: conservative Judge James Rosenbaum, Chief Judge of the US District Court for th...
Dec 11, 2003 / David Rubenstein
Facing the Human Rights Abyss Facing the Human Rights Abyss
A report on the state of global human rights.
Dec 10, 2003 / Feature / Roger Normand
Abortion Distortion Abortion Distortion
Lawmakers who passed the so-called partial birth abortion ban are far removed from women's lives.
Dec 8, 2003 / Feature / Rebecca Ayrey
Protesting to Protect the Constitution Protesting to Protect the Constitution
Three states (Alaska, Arizona and Hawaii) and 219 cities, towns and counties have passed anti-Patriot Act resolutions, ordinances or ballot initiatives. Hundreds more are in prog...
Dec 4, 2003 / The Nation
Occupational Hazards Occupational Hazards
One of the greatest paradoxes of the modern era is the relationship between science and rationalism.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Omer Bartov
Letter From South Carolina Letter From South Carolina
Shortly after Strom Thurmond died, the flags at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia were lowered to half-staff. Every flag except one, that is.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Paul Wachter
In Defense of the Law of Return In Defense of the Law of Return
It is Israel's compensatory response to the truth of Jewish experience.
Dec 4, 2003 / Feature / Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Bush’s Religious Language Bush’s Religious Language
George W. Bush began to take part in a Bible study group in 1985, after two decades of binge drinking. For two years he studied the Scriptures and put his heavy drinking behind h...
Dec 4, 2003 / Juan Stam
A Present for Murdoch A Present for Murdoch
The Bush Administration will make sure that no Grinch spoils Rupert Murdoch's holiday season.
Dec 4, 2003 / Jeffrey Chester
The AIDS Challenge The AIDS Challenge
This World AIDS Day we were greeted by new, more accurate data from the World Health Organization (WHO) confirming the astonishing scope of the global epidemic: Some 40 million a...
Dec 4, 2003 / The Editors