June 30, 2003 Issue
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Features
Anonymous Detentions Ruled Legal
"Citizens have a compelling interest in ensuring that their government does not abuse one of its most awesome powers, the power to arrest and jail."
The Nation
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New Law Assists Political Intimidation
An unnecessary new law is used to undermine legitimate dissent.
Daniel Forbes
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A Nation of Victims
Bush uses well-known linguistic techniques to make citizens feel dependent.
Renana Brooks
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Profits at Gunpoint
Unocal's pipeline in Burma becomes a test case in corporate responsibility.
Daphne Eviatar
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Letter From Kurdistan
Viewed close up, the "model" of democracy for all of Iraq is something less.
Joshua Kucera
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Editorials
Letter From Ground Zero
It is notoriously difficult to prove a negative. At what point can you be sure that something does not in fact exist?
Jonathan Schell
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Chipping Away at Roe
Congress has once again passed a bill banning "partial-birth abortion." It's not the first time. President Clinton vetoed similar bans in 1996 and 1997.
Wendy Chavkin
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A Rebuke to Ashcroft
"We have to hold these people until we find out what is going on." According to a report issued June 2 by the Justice Department's own Inspector General, that's what Michael Chertoff, head of t
David Cole
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Bumps in the Road Map
The Bush Administration's carefully stage-managed June 4 Aqaba summit could not hide the serious structural impediments to a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Roane Carey
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The ‘Intelligence’ Game
As quixotic searches for "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq continue to yield little more than chagrin, the Washington establishment is growing restive.
Jason Vest
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Taking Back America
As America's jobless rate hit a nine-year high and after-the-fact analyses of the Republican tax plan revealed that the Bush Administration and its allies in Congress had denied child tax credi
the Editors
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Columns
What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?
The Case of the Phantom Uranium raises questions about the President that could lead to legitimate calls for impeachment.
Robert Scheer
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Smallpox, Smoking and Sympathetic Dystrophy
My right eyelid twitches on an irregular but steady basis. Is this anything to worry about? Or is it just age and the worries of the world?
Dr. Marc Siegel
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Blond Ambition
Hillary Clinton's autobiography comes out barely a week after Martha Stewart is indicted for obstruction of justice and fraud related to alleged insider trading, and you still don't beli
Katha Pollitt
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Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld And, Alas, Powell Talk To the American People
They pushed the CIA to say
That nukes could quickly come our way--
Saddam might, with a finger snap,
Remove Chicago from the map.Calvin Trillin
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Books and the Arts
Bob Hope, Prisoner of War
War correspondents frequently suffer from what might be diagnosed as Ernie Pyle Syndrome.
Francis Davis
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Passport: A Manifesto
This is your passport I hold in my hand:
a hemisphere, half red ink, half blue--
as yet untorched by terror, but pollutedCarol Muske-Dukes
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The Critical Imagination
James Wood, the ferociously intelligent critic whose reviews appear regularly in The New Republic and the London Review of Books, has single-handedly done a great deal to improve
Brian Morton
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The Last Mogul
Lew Wasserman, who died last summer at 89, was not only the most powerful and influential man in Hollywood over the past half-century but also the most enigmatic.
Thomas Schatz
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