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Letters to the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives Letters to the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives

Honored Infidel,       In the near future we plan to expand our faith-based initiative, Holy Terror Sandblasting and Demolition Corp. New York Ci...

Mar 15, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

SAT–A Failing Test SAT–A Failing Test

Educators have long known the rap sheet on the SAT, the college entrance exam that millions of young people have taken as a rite of passage for some seventy-five years. Since its ...

Mar 15, 2001 / Peter Sacks

Our Mobsters, Ourselves

Our Mobsters, Ourselves Our Mobsters, Ourselves

Why The Sopranos is therapeutic TV.

Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Willis

Mangler-in-Chief Mangler-in-Chief

Last month, the Boston Globe broke the amazing news that President George W. Bush is rapidly becoming the Pericles of modern politics.

Mar 13, 2001 / Ken Silverstein

When Ignorance Is Bliss When Ignorance Is Bliss

I have eaten more than my share of Whoppers in my forty-one years. As a teenager I liked them so much I'd worry about whether I could afford another one while still eating the fi...

Mar 8, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman

An Out-of-Control Court An Out-of-Control Court

Unchastened by the widespread denunciation of their election decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative bloc seems determined to continue using its one-vote majority to ram throu...

Mar 8, 2001 / Herman Schwartz

The Black-White Wealth Gap The Black-White Wealth Gap

Net worth, more than any other statistic, shows the depth of racial inequality.

Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / Dalton Conley

Whodunit–the Media? Whodunit–the Media?

It's easy to blame cartoons for gun-toting kids. But the truth isn't so tidy.

Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / Maggie Cutler

Deconstructing the Election Deconstructing the Election

The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war rather than that of a language: relations of power, not relations of meaning.       ...

Mar 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Win McCormack

Some Cyberspace of Her Own Some Cyberspace of Her Own

I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.       --Michel Foucau...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Bronwyn Garrity

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