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March 14, 2005 Issue
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Editorial
Dirty Politics, Foul Air
At Pittsburgh's Jefferson Elementary School, which overlooks the dark gray plumes from two electric power plants, there are so many children with asthma the school nurse alpha...
Gorbachev’s Lost Legacy
The most important event of the late twentieth century began twenty years ago this month.
Negroponte: Unfit to Lead
"You have to ask, Who would want this job?" So said a former senior CIA official referring to the new post of director of national intelligence, to which George W.
Sex & GOP ‘Values’
Mourning the loss of "moral values" voters, Democratic leaders have been softening the party's language on reproductive rights.
Column
The Pajama Game
It's hard to know who to root against in the bloggers vs. CNN controversy that led to the resignation of CNN's Eason Jordan, a twenty-three-year veteran of the network.
Playing by the Numbers
My friend L., a magistrate in Britain, is appalled by American-style sentencing, which has taken hold there recently.
Letters
Feature
Galbraith: An Appreciation
John Kenneth Galbraith was famous long ago as America's most widely read economist, until his expansive understanding of economic liberalism was pushed aside by political ev...
Books & the Arts
The Impermanent Revolution
Isaac Deutscher stands out among the early intellectual mentors of the New Left as the only one who expounded classical Marxism. On a mid-1960s "must read" authors list that...
Jewtopia
Yiddish, a national language that never had a nation-state, may no longer have millions of speakers, but it remains contested territory nonetheless.
Stankonia
Fifty years ago, a young Polish journalist named Leopold Tyrmand lost his job at the country's last surviving independent publication, the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powsze...
