Republicans Relaunch the Antigay Culture Wars Republicans Relaunch the Antigay Culture Wars
The GOP embrace of homophobia is more than simply a sop to the far right.
Oct 2, 2003 / Feature / Doug Ireland
Spanking Head Start Spanking Head Start
Used to be, nearly everyone--Democrat or Republican--loved Head Start, the federal preschool program for kids from low-income families. And why not?
Oct 2, 2003 / Editorial / Jennifer Niesslein
State of Denial State of Denial
We live in interesting times. These days we can all pretty much acknowledge that race does not exist as a scientific construct; these days, we can all agree that racism is wron...
Sep 25, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Educating for Privilege Educating for Privilege
As a law school dean, I was much taken with a statement from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's landmark opinion in the University of Michigan case: "Law schools represent the train...
Sep 25, 2003 / Editorial / Gene Nichol
No-Privacy Zone No-Privacy Zone
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Sep 25, 2003 / Editorial / David Jones
Seeing Red at the Post Seeing Red at the Post
I did a double take when I got to the eighth paragraph of the Washington Post's eleven-paragraph August 21 news story on Kathy Boudin's parole.
Sep 25, 2003 / Editorial / Victor Navasky
A Death in Iran A Death in Iran
When Canadian freelance photojournalist Zahra Kazemi flew to her native country of Iran last spring, little did she know that covering the student protests would be her final ass...
Sep 22, 2003 / Feature / Ladane Nasseri
Yale Workers Win Yale Workers Win
Late last week, Yale clerical and maintenance workers who had been striking for three weeks won a contract that will transform the standard of living of clerical workers at the u...
Sep 22, 2003 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein
A Kinder, Gentler Fundamentalism A Kinder, Gentler Fundamentalism
In his 1998 book, One Nation, After All, Alan Wolfe chided liberals for their misapprehensions about the political attitudes of ordinary Americans.
Sep 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Massing
She’s Gotta Have It She’s Gotta Have It
In his 1997 song "Highlands," Bob Dylan reports a conversation between himself and a waitress. "She says, You don't read women authors, do you?/...
Sep 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Claire Dederer