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Bush’s drive for global abstinence
Laura McClure
At a United Nations conference in Bangkok, the U.S. shocks more than 30 Asian countries with a condemnation of premarital sex, contraception and abortion.
“About Schmidt”
Charles Taylor
Despite Jack Nicholson's competence, this comedy about a Midwestern retiree never goes beyond mocking its characters and flattering its audience.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to recent articles on Bush and families, women in Islam, and Indian-crazy Germans.
Plus: Young people talk back to Dr. Lynn Ponton.
No children allowed
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
President Bush wants welfare recipients to marry -- but not have kids.
“The Blindfold’s Eyes” by Dianna Ortiz
Donna Minkowitz
An American nun who survived the torture chambers of Guatemala describes her ordeal and the fear and guilt that still haunt her.
Why the Greens are also celebrating Election ’02
Michelle Goldberg
Buoyed by a handful of grass-roots victories, the Green Party claims the midterms showed the hollowness of its Democratic rival.
Bring back the new economy!
Suneel Ratan
Neither Bush nor the Democrats have grasped how to get the country moving again: Spurring innovation back to boom-time heights.
Donkey in distress
Joan Walsh
Defeated Democrats are bickering over whether victory lies in embracing the center or the left. But a majority party needs to do both.
Showtime for the GOP
Robert Scheer
Just remember, guys, no more excuses
about Democrats obstructing the Republican platform. Your bluff has been called.
Clearing the bench
Michelle Goldberg
A triumphant Bush is set to appoint an army of conservative judges who will overturn civil and reproductive rights -- and could kill Roe vs. Wade.
It’s the war, stupid
Gary Kamiya
Yes, the Democrats have serious problems. But without 9/11, they still would have trounced Bush and the Republicans.
Playing politics with world population
Robert Scheer
President Bush plays to the extreme right but puts the globe at risk by threatening a bold U.N. accord on world population.
Florida: The Sequel
Eric Boehlert
Democrat Bill McBride is keeping the race for governor close, but the Bush brothers are going all-out to keep the Sunshine State in the family.
Miss America’s stealth virginity campaign
Lara Riscol
With the coveted tiara firmly in her grasp, beauty queen Erika Harold quickly unveiled plans to promote her pet cause: Abstinence-only sex education.
Sin
Jake Tapper
Ten years after ripping up a photo of the pope to protest sexual abuse in the Catholic Church -- and destroying her career -- Siniad O'Connor returns to talk about her new album of Irish folk, her kids and why she sympathizes with America.
Wall Street’s worst nightmare
Damien Cave
Does New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer really want to clean up the stock market, or just make himself look good?
Panic in the sheets
Damien Cave
Abstinence crusaders are exploiting fears of a mysterious virus to scare teens away from having sex.
Stealth conservative
Michelle Goldberg
Bush judicial nominee Miguel Estrada is beloved by Ann Coulter and the right. But with no paper trail about his views, opponents will have a tough time rejecting him in the Senate.
Matches made in Manhattan
Stephanie Lehmann
Wealthy clients pay Lisa Clampitt thousands of dollars to spend the evening with models, Playboy bunnies and other curvy sirens. But it's all perfectly legal.
A beacon of sanity
Michelle Goldberg
In an age of religious fanatics, patriotic zealots and self-righteous leftists, Salman Rushdie champions free thinking and fun.
Jailbait
Katharine Mieszkowski
How antiabortion zealots posing as underage girls tried to entrap Planned Parenthood workers.
Brains 1, Barbie 0
Jake Tapper
The inside story of how a Harvard law student beat out her more bodacious sisters for the Miss America crown.
Mixing God and politics
Michelle Goldberg
Congress is voting on a bill to let religious leaders endorse candidates from the pulpit. The right can't lose: If it fails, they'll have a campaign issue to use against opponents in November.
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