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Mr. President? They don’t trust you anymore
Tim Grieve
New polls bring bad news and complications for George W. Bush.
Did Specter tell the right to “butt out”?
Tim Grieve
The chairman of the Senate Judicary Committee complains about the noise from special interest groups. The Family Research Council is fuming.
Letters
Salon Staff
"Perhaps today's smart women should stop contemplating the lexicon and start figuring out the fight." Readers sound off on Rebecca Traister's article about "feminism."
Waiting for Rehnquist — and O’Connor, again?
Tim Grieve
The chief justice's retirement is now so widely anticipated now that senators are talking openly about his replacement. Arlen Specter's pick: Sandra Day O'Connor
The final tilt of the scales
Sidney Blumenthal
With Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement, right-wing Republicans see the opportunity of a lifetime to seize the Supreme Court once and for all.
“The war on terror goes on”
Tim Grieve
The attacks in London are a human tragedy, but it's hard not to think that there's a sense of relief at the White House.
Litmus test? What litmus test?
Tim Grieve
The White House says the president is making his way through the records of more than a dozen potential Supreme Court nominees, without any concern for the political views of any of them.
The Supreme Court perception game
Tim Grieve
The White House wants you to know that it's pushing back against the religious right on the question of Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement.
The F word
Rebecca Traister
"Feminism" turns off a lot of younger women. Is it time to retire the word -- or reclaim it?
The president’s “defining” moment
Tim Grieve
The press says that a vacancy on the Supreme Court gives George W. Bush a chance to define himself. Pardon us for thinking that moment passed a long time ago.
“A nightmare for liberals”
David Paul Kuhn
The departure of Sandra Day O'Connor sets the stage for a nasty judicial confirmation battle -- and could tip the Supreme Court decisively to the right.
After O’Connor
Compiled by Salon staff
What's next for abortion, gay rights and post-9/11 civil liberties? Activists and scholars debate the Supreme Court's future.
O’Connor and the 5-4 decision
Tim Grieve
People for the American Way offers a list of 5-4 decisions that could have gone the other way if a more reliably conservative justice were sitting in O'Connor's seat.
The impact of Sandra Day O’Connor
Tim Grieve
The retiring justice has provided the critical swing vote in dozens and dozens of Supreme Court decisions, but none more visible than those on abortion rights.
Sandra Day O’Connor to resign
Tim Grieve
The swing-voting associate justice will leave the Supreme Court.
Stranger than fiction
Laura Miller
L. Ron Hubbard's "Dianetics" is a fantastically dull, terribly written, crackpot rant -- it's also the founding text of Scientology. So, what does it actually say?
Jenna? Barbara? Your war is waiting
Tim Grieve
The Iraq war used to have plenty of supporters. Why aren't more of them signing up to fight?
A woman needs a repairman
Ayelet Waldman
I still want my husband to change the light bulbs and fix the leaky faucets. Maybe I'm not as much of a feminist as I think I am.
A broken body
Sidney Blumenthal
Under DeLay's leadership, the work of the House has become trivial, and corruption cannot be investigated, much less rebuked.
The Jackson trial — the best of the worst
John Gorenfeld
Where was the real spectacle -- in court, or out, with the freak-show antics of O'Reilly, Grace, Scarborough, Corey Feldman, and the rest?
Southern star
Tim Grieve
Virginia Gov. Mark Warner has crossover appeal -- he can talk NASCAR without getting laughed out of town. Can he help Democrats win the White House?
My date with Mr. eHarmony
Rebecca Traister
Neil Clark Warren is the Christian evangelical who runs Internet dating titan eHarmony. I'm a pagan feminist who's leery of the religious right. Would sparks fly?
Term limits
Salon Staff
How do you define "Republican"? And what's a "davenport," anyway? TTers wrestle words this week.
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