Domestic Terror Domestic Terror
When several soldiers killed their wives, an old problem was suddenly news.
Sep 26, 2002 / Feature / Catherine Lutz and Jon Elliston
Sense and Sexibility Sense and Sexibility
In 1967 the world-renowned if somewhat Dickensianly named sexologist John Money was offered a case he couldn't refuse.
Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen
Rethinking the Second Wave Rethinking the Second Wave
A few years ago, an intellectual historian uncovered the story of Betty Friedan's formative years as a Popular Front journalist and activist in the 1940s.
Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Nancy MacLean
Keeping the Faith Keeping the Faith
That the abused child will defend its parent is no arcane phenomenon of child psychology--hell, we've seen it on Law and Order.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
The Right’s Judicial Juggernaut The Right’s Judicial Juggernaut
Democrats, faced with Scalia and Thomas clones, are finally saying: Ideology matters.
Sep 19, 2002 / Feature / Jack Newfield
Women Move Up Women Move Up
Shannon O'Brien had advantages going into the campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Massachusetts. As the state treasurer, she'd won a statewide race.
Sep 19, 2002 / John Nichols
Infallible Justice Infallible Justice
I saw a puzzling banner on the door of a restaurant the other day. It was a flag flanked by two aphorisms: God bless America and America bless God.
Sep 19, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages
Legendary New York Times obit writer Alden Whitman once observed, "Death, the cliché assures us, is the great leveler; but it obviously levels some a great deal more tha...
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Tatiana Siegel
Slut Patrol Slut Patrol
In some parts of China, local officials keep track of women's menstrual periods. We haven't come to that, but anyone who thinks women's reproductive and sexual privacy is secure in...
Sep 12, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Fascism’s Firm Footprint in India Fascism’s Firm Footprint in India
The Indian state is criminally culpable for the murder of Muslims in Gujarat.
Sep 12, 2002 / Feature / Arundhati Roy