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Tinkering With the Death Machine Tinkering With the Death Machine

The essential case for the abolition of capital punishment has long been complete, whether it is argued as an overdue penal reform, as a shield against the arbitrary and the irrepa...

Jul 3, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Going Down the Road Going Down the Road

POP-ing the Bankers

Jul 3, 2002 / Jim Hightower

Screen Rage Screen Rage

One of the most persistent myths in the culture wars today is that social science has proven "media violence" to cause adverse effects. The debate is over; the evidence is over...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Marjorie Heins

Citizen Jane Citizen Jane

A half-century ago T.H. Marshall, British Labour Party social theorist, offered a progressive, developmental theory for understanding the history of what we have come to call citi...

Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon

Political Cross-Dressing Political Cross-Dressing

SEC chairman Harvey Pitt lurches from lapdog to bulldog, threatening CEOs with jail time if their corporate reports mislead. George Bush demands "top floor" accountability. Republ...

Jul 3, 2002 / The Editors

The Right Welfare Reform The Right Welfare Reform

It was bad enough that the Bush Administration co-opted the Children's Defense Fund slogan "Leave No Child Behind." Then the most famous former board member of CDF, Hillary Rodham...

Jul 3, 2002 / Ruth Conniff

Seeing Red Seeing Red

Cartoon

Jul 3, 2002 / R.O. Blechman

Cartooning Terror Cartooning Terror

When Ted Rall's cartoon "Terror Widows" appeared on the New York Times website on March 6, angry letters of complaint poured into the

Jul 3, 2002 / Feature / Asa Pittman and Emma Ruby-Sachs

Sunshine on Sweatshops Sunshine on Sweatshops

It's been more than three months since twelve Florida State University students were arrested for setting up a "tent city" in front of the school's administration building.

Jul 2, 2002 / Feature / Jenny Stepp

God’s Got Nothing to Do With the Pledge of Allegiance Furor God’s Got Nothing to Do With the Pledge of Allegiance Furor

Belief in God is not the issue in the continuing brouhaha over the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance. Rather, it's the government's endorsement of a monotheistic God.

Jul 2, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

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