Lott Should Resign Lott Should Resign
Among the obscenities accumulating in the political atmosphere, the most disgusting may be Trent Lott.
Dec 12, 2002 / The Editors
Reasons for Doubt Reasons for Doubt
When I was in college, I joined a court-watching project in Roxbury, Massachusetts. We observed criminal trials, then interviewed judges, lawyers and witnesses.
Dec 12, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Where Were the Women? Where Were the Women?
Their support of Democrats declined in 2002, helping to sink the party's fortunes.
Dec 12, 2002 / Feature / Anna Greenberg
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
The Hungry Physician The Hungry Physician
It seemed like a straightforward invitation. Dinner at an upscale uptown restaurant, sponsored by a drug company, where the topic was to be financial planning.
Dec 12, 2002 / Dr. Marc Siegel
The Three Mile Island of Biotech? The Three Mile Island of Biotech?
When plants in Nebraska carrying swine diarrhea drugs mingled with food for humans, all hell broke loose.
Dec 12, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
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