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Bringing the Holy War Home

There is a link between our own cultural conflicts and the logic of jihad.

Ellen Willis

Times Cries Eke! Buries Al Gore

Florida revisited: Schadenfreude amid the carnage of the democratic process.

Gore Vidal

Can Patriotism Be Compassionate?

Moral concern begins with the local, but shouldn’t stop there.

Martha C. Nussbaum

The M/F Boxes

Transgender activists may force us to rethink basic assumptions about sex.

E.J. Graff

Students Wrestle With War

Embattled campus activists hone their message about the crisis in Afghanistan.

Liza Featherstone

War Without End

Allied 'surgical strikes' in Kosovo in 1999 created environmental hotspots yet to cleaned up; the same might happen in Afghanistan.

A.C. Thompson

Chelsea in Oxford

Chelsea Clinton bristles at the antiwar movement while she attends Oxford.

Daniel Swift

Ashcroft Skates

Cowed Democrats fail to confront Ashcroft's civil liberties violations.

David Corn

AFL-CIO Opens its Convention: Back to the Barricades

The AFL-CIO is fighting two wars: standing with President Bush in the war on terror, and against him in his war against workers.

Marc Cooper

Alien’s Law

Noncitizens in the United States face an increasingly harsh Ashcroft-run Justice Department.

Bruce Shapiro

Press Watch

The Times fans the flames of public fear around the anthrax attacks.

Michael Massing

Ashcroft Justice

The Justice Department under John Ashcroft is alienating allies in the 'war on terror.'

The Editors

National Security State

Even stalwart liberals are knuckling under to the security state in the wake of September 11.

David Cole

One Problem

Calvin Trillin

After the Taliban

Laura Bush might put on a good face for women's rights in Afghanistan, but her husband's handwork works against women in other places.

Katha Pollitt

The Ends of War

Now that the Taliban regime has fallen in Afghanistan, that group's leaders can face fair and open trials for their crimes against humanity.

Christopher Hitchens

It Is Crazy to Curtail Due Process Rules

America's enemies are not uniquely 'evil,' and it's naive to think of them as such.

Robert Scheer

Jazzing Politics

Don Byron and Dave Douglas put the political back into jazz.

Gene Santoro

In Our Orbit

Reviews of Grace Schulman's The Paintings of Our Lives and Stephen F. Cohen's Failed Crusade.

The Editors

Marketplace of Ideas or Tag Sale?

A review of Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in the Connected World.

Steven Johnson

American Buffaloer

David Mamet's Heist is tasty, but not quite aces.

Tim Appelo

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