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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

Is There a Future for Pacifica? Is There a Future for Pacifica?

The jury is still out on whether it can restore, let alone enhance, its influence.

Mar 28, 2002 / Feature / Susan J. Douglas

Oscar Opens the Door Oscar Opens the Door

As Halle Berry elegantly strode to the podium to accept her best actress Oscar, the first for a black woman, she wept uncontrollably and gasped, "This moment is so much bigger tha...

Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Michael Eric Dyson

Lieberman in Enronland Lieberman in Enronland

It has come to this: The investigation of Enron as a political scandal appears for now to depend on Senator Joseph Lieberman, an Enron Democrat who bagged Enron campaign contribut...

Mar 28, 2002 / The Editors

The God Squad The God Squad

Was it lack of space or was it lack of time that made Katha Pollitt so bland and lenient about the current state of religious leadership in our country and our culture ["God C...

Mar 28, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Adventures in Book Reviewing Adventures in Book Reviewing

Back in 1994, Christina Hoff Sommers accused The New York Times Book Review of unfairly assigning her attack on the women's movement, Who Stole Feminism?, to the distinguished sc...

Mar 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

We’ve Gotta Have It We’ve Gotta Have It

Black filmmakers seize the moment.

Mar 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

Stealth Vouchers Stealth Vouchers

While most of the media focused, with good reason, on the huge increase in military spending and dramatic cuts in domestic programs in President Bush's $2.1 trillion budget propos...

Mar 22, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz

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