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Feature
Correction
A web-only article “An Engaging Encounter” posted on June 21 incorrectly identified the sponsor of a pre-marriage program. Catholic Engaged Encounter had no involvement in the program and none
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State of the Union
For better or worse, there isn’t always magic in marriage, but it does involve a certain alchemy.
Richard Kim and Betsy Reed
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Dick Cheney and the $5 Million Man
Will Dick Cheney be indicted for past Halliburton abuses?
Doug Ireland
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Marry, Marry, Quite Contrary
To wed is to lose one’s precious distance from conformity.
Catharine R. Stimpson
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Onward Christian Soldiers
The religious right’s sense of siege is fueling a resurgence.
Esther Kaplan
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Sacred Rite or Civil Right?
Gay marriage shows why we need to separate church & state.
Rev. Howard Moody
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Can Marriage Be Saved?
A forum with Ellen Willis, Martha Fineman, Patricia Hill Collins, Judith Butler, Susan Brownmiller, E.J. Graff, Michael Eric Dyson, Judith Stacey and others.
The Nation
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Can Marriage Be Saved?
Randall Kennedy, Edmund White, Laura Kipnis, Nora Ephron, Michael Bronski, JoAnn Wypijewski, Hilton Als
The Nation
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Editorial
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Divining the Court
Our best legal brains are still scratching their heads about the Supreme Court decision in the Pledge of Allegiance case (see Elisabeth Sifton, “The Editors
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Election Matters
We seem to have arrived at another of those bizarre and somewhat surreal moments when the media have “rediscovered” America’s evangelicals.
Randall Balmer
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Two, Three, Many Iraqs
With the recent US setbacks and scandals in Iraq, you’d think the White House would abandon the President’s aggressive, unilateralist military policy–the “Bush Doctrine”–and seek to avoid new c
Michael T. Klare
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Torture and Democracy
If there was ever any doubt, it is now clear that the torture at Abu Ghraib cannot be dismissed as the actions of a few bad actors.
The Editors
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Al Qaeda Disconnect
Though Bush & Cheney insist on a connection, the 9/11 Commission states otherwise.
David Corn
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Column
The Soros Slander Campaign Continues
We return this week to the conservative crusade to destroy the reputation of financier and philanthropist George Soros.
Eric Alterman
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Sex and the Stepford Wife
As numerous reviewers of the overblown and over-remade remake of The Stepford Wives have pointed out, men do not really want to be married to robots.
Katha Pollitt
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Bush Administration Priorities on National Secrets
When piqued at Ambassador Wilson
The Bushmen saw no reason why
They shouldn’t just leak to all quarters
The name of a CIA spy.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Unfulfilled Promise
Jim Weinstein has spent most of his adult life writing about the failures and possibilities of the American left.
Joel Rogers
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Advise and Consent
Foreign policy is that rare field in which essay-writing matters.
Scott L. Malcomson
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By Any Means Necessary
In June 1965 James Farmer, leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and longtime champion of Gandhian nonviolence, arrived in Bogalusa, Louisiana, to support a desegregation struggle in t
Mike Marqusee
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Scenes From a Marriage
Conventional wisdom suggests Israelis and Palestinians are bitter enemies: two sides mired in a century-long conflict marked by violence, hatred and an unbounded reservoir of brutality, each side
Jonathan Shainin
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