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US Jews Cannot Acquiesce to Sharon’s Monstrous Behavior US Jews Cannot Acquiesce to Sharon’s Monstrous Behavior

What does it mean to be Jewish?

Apr 9, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Microbes at the Gates Microbes at the Gates

Odds are good that on a plane or boat or bus somewhere in the world sits a refugee headed for the United States carrying the seeds of a weapon of mass destruction. The agent he un...

Apr 4, 2002 / Wendy Johnson

The Keyboard Campus The Keyboard Campus

"Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics," business "guru" Peter Drucker proclaimed in Forbes five years ago. "It took more than 200 years for the printed...

Apr 4, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Brier and Roy Rosenzweig

Twenty Years On Twenty Years On

Here we are, twenty years on, and the reports of the Israeli army smashing its way through Palestinian towns remind me of what came out of Lebanon as Sharon and his invading army...

Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Rights on the Line Rights on the Line

Recent days have brought the first tentative but welcome roadblocks to the Bush Administration's war-fevered assault on civil liberties. In Newark, Superior Court Judge Arthur D'I...

Apr 4, 2002 / The Editors

Two Middle East Wars Two Middle East Wars

Two Palestinian-Israeli wars have erupted in this region. One is the Palestinian nation's war for its freedom from occupation and for its right to independent statehood. Any decen...

Apr 4, 2002 / Amos Oz

Tests, Tracking and Derailment Tests, Tracking and Derailment

As state budgets around the country are slashed to accommodate the expense of the war on terror, the pursuit of educational opportunity for all seems ever more elusive. While sta...

Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Right Watch Right Watch

With compromise legislation stranded in Congress, the report card on the President's faith-based initiative reads "incomplete." Bush, however, has clearly succeeded on two fronts.

Apr 4, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz

Monterrey and the World Monterrey and the World

How are we to read the International Conference on Financing for Development, which recently concluded in Monterrey, Mexico? Just another United Nations talkathon?

Apr 4, 2002 / Feature / Patrick Smith

The Fishnet Fallacy The Fishnet Fallacy

When a girl becomes her school's designated slut, her friends stop talking to her. Pornographic rumors spread with dazzling efficiency, boys harass her openly in the hallways, gir...

Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elaine Blair

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