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Mormon Family Values Mormon Family Values

Facing the anguish of their gay son, the Hardys became accidental activists.

Feb 7, 2002 / Feature / Katherine Rosman

POWs in Legal Limbo POWs in Legal Limbo

It's safe to assume that the 150 or so Al Qaeda and Taliban militiamen now occupying those 6-by-8-foot cages in Guantánamo Bay are not sympathetic characters. It's also re...

Feb 7, 2002 / Bruce Shapiro

Bad Hair Day Bad Hair Day

We have reached the point that the idea of liberty, an idea relatively recent and new, is already in the process of fading from our consciences and our standards of morality, t...

Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

The Liberator Released The Liberator Released

In the issue of January 4, 1866, The Nation--itself founded by a group of abolitionists--paid tribute to the final issue of William Lloyd Garrison's fiery anti-slavery newspaper,...

Feb 7, 2002 / Feature / Michele Willens

Indian Giving Indian Giving

"I see Native people dying every day because they can't afford health insurance," Elouise Cobell said over the phone in mid-January from Washington, DC, as she prepared to testi...

Feb 7, 2002 / Feature / Chris Lombardi

Letter From Pôrto Alegre Letter From Pôrto Alegre

PÔRTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL--In their last full day of discussion and debate, the thousands of delegates attending the World Social Forum were asking themselves not only what they...

Jan 31, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Victory for Viet Vets Victory for Viet Vets

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Jan 31, 2002 / Peter Montague and Maria B. Pellerano

Politically Incorrect Politically Incorrect

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Jan 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Fusion Biopolitics Fusion Biopolitics

In the next few weeks the Senate will hold hearings and vote on legislation that would outlaw the cloning of human embryos, either for the purpose of medical experimentation or t...

Jan 31, 2002 / Jeremy Rifkin

Enron End Run Enron End Run

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Jan 31, 2002 / David Corn

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