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The liberal media conspiracy, papal version
Eric Boehlert
By ignoring conservative critics of John Paul II, Hugh Hewitt says the mainstream press has revealed its lefty bias once again.
That Schiavo memo? Kill the messenger
Tim Grieve
Why hold Republican Sen. Mel Martinez responsible for the memo he gave Tom Harkin when you can blame the Democrats and the media instead?
Passport to pry
Katharine Mieszkowski
Civil libertarians are up in arms over government plans to embed new I.D. chips in visas and passports. And isn't it convenient that Tom Ridge is now the I.D. technology's biggest salesman?
Culture of strife
Sidney Blumenthal
Bush is exploiting the American Catholic Church's polarization to consolidate his conservative social agenda.
Letters
Salon Staff
Do we expect too much from the church, or too little? Readers debate the legacy of John Paul II.
Why I can’t mourn the pope
Joan Walsh
Dying of cancer, my mother was driven away from the church she loved by its doctrinal rigidity. That I can't forgive.
John Paul II Superstar
Richard Rodriguez
The pope and his made-for-TV papacy did more for the world at large than for his own church. But the cameras loved him to his final act.
How close were Bush and John Paul II?
Eric Boehlert
Reporters note how Bush adopted some of the pope's teachings, but there were diffrences between the men as well.
A divider, not a uniter
Frances Kissling
The charismatic Pope John Paul II chose not to engage all Catholics, and so leaves a tragic legacy of missed opportunity that has ultimately damaged the church.
Pope John Paul II’s mixed legacy
Julia Scott
Catholic scholar Mary Segers discusses Pope John Paul II's important role in Eastern Europe, failure to acknowledge women's independence, and belief that real Christianity thrived only in poor countries.
Compassionate conservative
Amy Sullivan
John Paul II has been appropriated by the American right. But his "culture of life" was not the same as theirs.
Southern discomfort for DeLay
Julia Scott
Tom DeLay may have endangered his re-election chances with his stance on the Schiavo affair and his ongoing ethics imbroglios.
A tale told by an idiot
Eric Boehlert
Wildly overplaying the Schiavo protesters, ignoring facts and giving Bush a free ride, the press was full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Political crackup
Sidney Blumenthal
By intervening in the Schiavo case, Bush moved the religious right into the heart of the GOP. Now there will be hell to pay.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Invoking bin Laden, Nazism and beheading by chainsaw, right-wingers pulled out all the stops to make their case for "saving" Terri Schiavo.
Danforth asks: What happened to my party?
Tim Grieve
Former Sen. John Danforth says the GOP has become the political extension of the religious right.
Starving for leadership
Arianna Huffington
Democrats missed a golden opportunity to reclaim the "moral values" debate in the Terri Schiavo case.
Down with the judicial tyrants who are killing Terri Schiavo!
Joe Conason
Oops -- most of them are Republican. Never mind.
Terri? Terri who?
Tim Grieve
Republicans in Congress thought the Schiavo case offered them a no-lose political opportunity. Are they finally figuring out that they were wrong?
On Good Friday, is Jeb Bush Pontius Pilate?
Tim Grieve
The religious right steps up its demand that the Florida governor save Terri Schiavo by seizing her.
Death penalty for I.V. drug users
Maia Szalavitz
The Bush administration is considering imposing a gag rule on U.S.-funded groups that provide clean needles to addicts, despite their huge success in preventing the spread of HIV.
So much for the separation of powers
Tim Grieve
An anti-abortion judge never confirmed by the U.S. Senate could cast the deciding vote in the Schiavo case.
Anthony Kennedy, meet Terri Schiavo
Tim Grieve
The Republican justice vilified by the religious right for decisions on abortion and homosexuality may have the first vote on Schiavo's fate.
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