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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.
Everything you always wanted to know about the stem cell debate
Farhad Manjoo
George Bush's opposition to stem cell research is intellectually and morally incoherent. Here's why.
Bush the despot
Sidney Blumenthal
The Senate's compromise on the filibuster won't stop the president's quest for absolute power.
McCain vs. Frist
David Paul Kuhn
The Arizona moderate knocked out the Tennessee right-winger in the filibuster showdown. Does his victory foreshadow the 2008 primary?
My right-wing degree
Jeff Horwitz
How I learned to convert liberal campuses into conservative havens at Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute, alma mater of Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, Jeff Gannon and two Miss Americas.
In the polls
Julia Scott
New numbers today on Americans' attitudes about abortion, the judicial filibuster, and Bush -- and they don't look great for the right wing or the president.
Did Dems get enough from the filibuster deal?
Tim Grieve
If all they've done is postpone the debate until a Supreme Court nominee comes before the Senate, that's still pretty important.
Shunning the science-based community
Julia Scott
Contrary to popular wisdom, the Bush White House continues to dispute the promise of embryonic stem-cell research.
The Supreme Court re-enters the abortion debate
Julia Scott
In a surprise move, the Supreme Court agrees to consider a parental notification case with implications for the constitutionality of abortion laws.
The doctor is a scrub
Kerry Lauerman
In its first half-season -- and surprise finale -- "Grey's Anatomy" shows "ER" how to maintain a healthy medical drama.
Here come the judges, again
Dan Noyes, Andy Isaacson
Miss them the first time around? Meet the seven antiabortion, anti-gay, pro-industry Bush nominees who could rise from the ashes of the filibuster.
Fortas who?
Joe Conason
If the GOP applied the same ethical tests to Priscilla Owen that its predecessors used to disqualify a liberal judge in 1968, she'd have to withdraw her nomination.
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