Society

Beyond the AIDS Quilt Beyond the AIDS Quilt

Last year marked the "twentieth anniversary" of AIDS, a grim occasion, to say the least, that put major US newspapers in an unenviable predicament.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim

Censorship 101 Censorship 101

Annals of Higher Education: If recent events at Stanford and Harvard are any indication, the past decade's earnest debates over "political correctness" are over, replaced by ro...

Dec 5, 2002 / Bruce Shapiro

As Miss World Turns As Miss World Turns

The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women's bodies.

Dec 5, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Rawls and Us Rawls and Us

The late John Rawls was, by all accounts, a remarkably modest and generous person, much beloved by his friends and students, and profoundly uninterested in the kinds of fame an...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Fixing the Rotten Corporate Barrel Fixing the Rotten Corporate Barrel

States grant corporate charters; they should start taking some of them away.

Dec 5, 2002 / Feature / John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander

Diary of the Bridget Joneses Diary of the Bridget Joneses

If single women have been told once, they've been told a thousand times: Don't think you're ever too successful or too young to have your ovaries shrivel up and die. Use 'em or...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ashley Nelson

Legal Victory for Airport Screeners Legal Victory for Airport Screeners

A federal judge hands nine workers an unexpected victory in their battle against a law requiring citizenship for all airport screeners.

Dec 3, 2002 / Feature / Michael Flaherty

The Grubman The Grubman

The financial scandals continue to produce more outrageous revelations, but lately they come with lurid personal details more appropriate to bottom-dwelling tabloids than the W...

Nov 26, 2002 / William Greider

Hunger USA Hunger USA

Tony Hall, just before leaving Congress in September, sat in his office in Longworth House Office Building and thought of something that had stuck with him since a trip to Appa...

Nov 26, 2002 / David Sarasohn

Quiet in Hollywood Quiet in Hollywood

The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship has gone in...

Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

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