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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

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