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The Evil of Access The Evil of Access

Campaign finance reform can succeed--but only if the pressure stays on.

Dec 12, 2002 / Feature / Mark Green

Where Were the Women? Where Were the Women?

Their support of Democrats declined in 2002, helping to sink the party's fortunes.

Dec 12, 2002 / Feature / Anna Greenberg

Independent’s Day Independent’s Day

Minnesota's Dean Barkley represents a movement with a strong state foothold.

Dec 12, 2002 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry

The Conservative Imagination The Conservative Imagination

Dinesh D'Souza became a right-wing campus radical at Dartmouth in the late Carter years. His motives should be recognizable to former campus radicals of the other variety.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / George Packer

Beyond the AIDS Quilt Beyond the AIDS Quilt

Last year marked the "twentieth anniversary" of AIDS, a grim occasion, to say the least, that put major US newspapers in an unenviable predicament.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim

Frederick Seidel of St. Louis Frederick Seidel of St. Louis

Frederick Seidel of St. Louis, Missouri, is probably the last American decadent--certainly he is the most distinguished.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robyn Creswell

Mamet Goes Wildeing Mamet Goes Wildeing

The great disparity in the critical reaction to Caryl Churchill's Far Away, now playing Off Broadway, serves to remind us that opinions are just that--neither right nor wrong, but...

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman

Trent Lott’s “Uptown Klan” Trent Lott’s “Uptown Klan”

The incredible thing about the controversy surrounding soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's kissing up to the racist legacy of Strom Thurmond is that anyone thinks it is...

Dec 12, 2002 / John Nichols

Thank You, Philip Berrigan Thank You, Philip Berrigan

Thousands of mourners braved sub-freezing temperatures in West Baltimore on Monday to say farewell to an infantry lieutenant turned Roman Catholic priest, remembered as a father, ...

Dec 11, 2002 / Peter Rothberg

Cool, Clear, Water–For a Price Cool, Clear, Water–For a Price

Washington, DC

Dec 11, 2002 / Our Readers

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