October 9, 2000 Issue

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Feature

Up for Grabs

No matter what the next President or Congress may do or think, among the three branches of the federal government, the Supreme Court is often first among supposed equals.

Tom Wicker
States’ Rights Rise Again

Herman Schwartz
Earth in the Judicial Balance

To date, the Rehnquist Court's environmental record has been mixed. While no darling of the greens, neither has it been consistently "brown."

James Salzman
Is the Wall Crumbling?

The current Supreme Court is so divided on fundamental questions of separation of church and state. that the appointment of one or two conservative Justices could well tip the balance and jettison key historical principles.

Norman Redlich
First Amendment for the Rich?

At stake is whether the twenty-first-century First Amendment will be a protector of the powerful or a resource for the weak and disfranchised.

Burt Neuborne
Putting a Radical Right Team on the Bench

The future of the Supreme Court is the most important issue in the most important election year since 1932. Progressive Americans should treat it that way. The radical right does.

Ralph G. Neas
No Love Lost for Labor

Right now, what hurts labor, day to day, is the wins and losses in the lower courts.

Thomas Geoghegan
In Business We Trust

The Supreme Court once championed antitrust laws as valued tools to limit corporate power and to promote the autonomy, diversity and economic rights of people and firms without power. Not anymore.

Eleanor Fox
Moral Law, Changing Morals

A recent decision reminds us that true equality for gay people will arrive only when the Supreme Court is not controlled by Justices whose moral view of gay people is negative.

Chai R. Feldblum
For Some, Choice Gets Harder

Right now, there are three votes on the Court to get rid of Roe altogether and often four or five to impose costly, chilling and burdensome regulations on the exercise of that right by the patient and her doctor.

Susan Estrich
Color and the Court

The project of racial reconciliation and historical correction is "constitutional" in the deepest, multiple senses of that word.

Christopher Edley Jr.
Hear No Evil, See No Evil

To the Rehnquist Court, criminal justice is all too often a technical matter best left to the states.

David Cole
The Killing Machine

Stephen B. Bright
Power Shift Down–The Lower Courts Count

Nan Aron

Editorial

The Supreme Court Issue

The Rehnquist Court's paeans of praise for state government are belied by reality.

Herman Schwartz
A Full Tank of Paradoxes

Contrary to the impression fostered by the government's supporters, not all the fuel protesters are selfish, gas-guzzling throwbacks greedy for a bigger TV.

Maria Margaronis
Chase’s Historical Ledger

Chase should immediately open its archives to slavery researchers.
John S. Friedman
Holy Joe! A Culture War!

Instead of kissing babies, this year the pols are bashing youth culture and the companies that promote it.

The Editors
Acting for Justice

The two entertainment unions, already angered over runaway production, have tenaciously met the challenge and escalated the fight.

Marc Cooper
The Threat to the Net

Open access to the broadband Internet is essential if we are to insure that a diverse range of voices has a chance of reaching out to citizens in the new era of high-speed communications.
Jeffrey Chester
Aid for Nuclear Workers

Madame Curie's denial of radiation dangers is emblematic of the legacy we now face as America's romance with the atom draws to a close.

Robert Alvarez
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Column

A Scientific Observation (Using Some Experts Gail Sheehy Didn’t Know About) on the Speaking Problems That Seem to Run in the Bush Family

Calvin Trillin
Presidential Politics, Cont’d., Cont’d.

I still think third-party politics is mostly a crock, but then, so is two-party politics.

Katha Pollitt
Why Dubya Can’t Read

The poor guy is obviously dyslexic, and dyslexic to the point of near-illiteracy.

Christopher Hitchens

Books & the Arts

‘The Big Discourse’

Unusually sensitive to the fast-changing character of liberal social structures, C. Wright Mills proved impervious to the bitter ironies of reform.

John Summers
On Painting Reality

We've got too many stimuli and not enough places to put them. And so, perhaps, we keep moving around the surplus excitement, sticking it onto this or that image, with the unintended consequence of creating the hyperreal.

Stuart Klawans
Why Dubya Can’t Read

The poor guy is obviously dyslexic, and dyslexic to the point of near-illiteracy.

Christopher Hitchens
Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do…

Christina Hoff Summers is hot with righteous indignation on boys' behalf.

Mark Edmundson
Acting for Justice

The two entertainment unions, already angered over runaway production, have tenaciously met the challenge and escalated the fight.

Marc Cooper
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Our readers and Ellen Schrecker and Maurice Isserman on "The Right's Cold War Revision."

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October 9, 2000 Issue

Feature

No matter what the next President or Congress may do or think, among the three branches of the federal government, the Supreme Court is often first among supposed equals.

To date, the Rehnquist Court's environmental record has been mixed. While no darling of the greens, neither has it been consistently "brown."

The current Supreme Court is so divided on fundamental questions of separation of church and state. that the appointment of one or two conservative Justices could well tip the balance and jettison key historical principles.

At stake is whether the twenty-first-century First Amendment will be a protector of the powerful or a resource for the weak and disfranchised.

The future of the Supreme Court is the most important issue in the most important election year since 1932. Progressive Americans should treat it that way. The radical right does.

Right now, what hurts labor, day to day, is the wins and losses in the lower courts.

The Supreme Court once championed antitrust laws as valued tools to limit corporate power and to promote the autonomy, diversity and economic rights of people and firms without power. Not anymore.

A recent decision reminds us that true equality for gay people will arrive only when the Supreme Court is not controlled by Justices whose moral view of gay people is negative.

Right now, there are three votes on the Court to get rid of Roe altogether and often four or five to impose costly, chilling and burdensome regulations on the exercise of that right by the patient and her doctor.

The project of racial reconciliation and historical correction is "constitutional" in the deepest, multiple senses of that word.

To the Rehnquist Court, criminal justice is all too often a technical matter best left to the states.

Editorial

The Rehnquist Court's paeans of praise for state government are belied by reality.

Contrary to the impression fostered by the government's supporters, not all the fuel protesters are selfish, gas-guzzling throwbacks greedy for a bigger TV.

Chase should immediately open its archives to slavery researchers.

Instead of kissing babies, this year the pols are bashing youth culture and the companies that promote it.

The two entertainment unions, already angered over runaway production, have tenaciously met the challenge and escalated the fight.

Open access to the broadband Internet is essential if we are to insure that a diverse range of voices has a chance of reaching out to citizens in the new era of high-speed communications.

Madame Curie's denial of radiation dangers is emblematic of the legacy we now face as America's romance with the atom draws to a close.

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Column

I still think third-party politics is mostly a crock, but then, so is two-party politics.

The poor guy is obviously dyslexic, and dyslexic to the point of near-illiteracy.

Books & the Arts

Unusually sensitive to the fast-changing character of liberal social structures, C. Wright Mills proved impervious to the bitter ironies of reform.

We've got too many stimuli and not enough places to put them. And so, perhaps, we keep moving around the surplus excitement, sticking it onto this or that image, with the unintended consequence of creating the hyperreal.

The poor guy is obviously dyslexic, and dyslexic to the point of near-illiteracy.

Christina Hoff Summers is hot with righteous indignation on boys' behalf.

The two entertainment unions, already angered over runaway production, have tenaciously met the challenge and escalated the fight.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Letters

Our readers and Ellen Schrecker and Maurice Isserman on "The Right's Cold War Revision."