Letter From Ground Zero
It is notoriously difficult to prove a negative. At what point can you be sure that something does not in fact exist?
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June 30, 2003 Issue
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Editorial
Chipping Away at Roe
Congress has once again passed a bill banning "partial-birth abortion." It's not the first time. President Clinton vetoed similar bans in 1996 and 1997.
A Rebuke to Ashcroft
"We have to hold these people until we find out what is going on." According to a report issued June 2 by the Justice Department's own Inspector General, that's what Michael...
Bumps in the Road Map
The Bush Administration's carefully stage-managed June 4 Aqaba summit could not hide the serious structural impediments to a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The ‘Intelligence’ Game
As quixotic searches for "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq continue to yield little more than chagrin, the Washington establishment is growing restive.
Taking Back America
As America's jobless rate hit a nine-year high and after-the-fact analyses of the Republican tax plan revealed that the Bush Administration and its allies in Congress had de...
Column
Smallpox, Smoking and Sympathetic Dystrophy
My right eyelid twitches on an irregular but steady basis. Is this anything to worry about? Or is it just age and the worries of the wor...
Blond Ambition
Hillary Clinton's autobiography comes out barely a week after Martha Stewart is indicted for obstruction of justice and fraud related to alleged insider trading, and you ...
Letters
Letters
Eric Foner and Molly Ivins and Our Readers
Books & the Arts
Bob Hope, Prisoner of War
War correspondents frequently suffer from what might be diagnosed as Ernie Pyle Syndrome.
Passport: A Manifesto
This is your passport I hold in my hand:
a hemisphere, half red ink, half blue--
as yet untorched by terror, but polluted
The Critical Imagination
James Wood, the ferociously intelligent critic whose reviews appear regularly in The New Republic and the London Review of Books, has single-handedly done a gr...
The Last Mogul
Lew Wasserman, who died last summer at 89, was not only the most powerful and influential man in Hollywood over the past half-century but also the most enigmatic.
