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How tough is John McCain?
Jake Tapper
The GOP contender stands up to Milosevic, but will he defy the NRA?
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Ventura says what's on his mind; should you blame the Net?
“The Distance to the Moon”
Brad Wieners
A writer offers his own take on the literature of the road: the cross-country trip as midlife crisis.
Pundits in the limelight
Jenn Shreve
Political consultants make for better copy than the candidates; one writer's Brontk-inspired hell; enough with the "enough with 'Star Wars'" stories!
Boys to men
Daniel Mangin
"Edge of Seventeen," a film about coming out and of age in the early '80s, trumps the current crop of nice-guy gay films.
Bark, growl, snort
Susan McCarthy
These writers want to speak for the animals. Maybe that's because animals can't tell them to shut up.
Guns and penises
Camille Paglia
American society's problem isn't firearms -- it's the sexually dysfunctional men and women who abuse them.
“Turn of the Century”
James Poniewozik
Kurt Andersen's little big novel of the New York media world searches the noise for signal -- and finds it.
Orange Prize short-list announced
Craig Offman
North-American writers dominate a British literary award.
The woman in the gray flannel Mao jacket
Ruth Shalit
After two months as an ad woman, Ruth Shalit surveys the historic depiction of her profession and decides she'd rather be a late-capitalist soul-snatcher than a cringing drunk or a thieving ho'.
Send the House home
David Fine
These days lawmakers could live in their districts and convene online. Why won't they give up the Beltway?
How the Alvarez girl found her magic
Julia Alvarez
A girl whose life dangled by a story showed me how to redeem my own.
The world's most miserable gazillionaire
Douglas Cruickshank
Even a full-blown Portis gnasherfest couldn't get big gorgonzola Mike Eisner to say cheese.
Millennial-time religion
Jenn Shreve
The L.A. Weekly gets spiritual; poo falls from the sky in Salt Lake City.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Should geezers get (or give up) the girls? Tapper betrays anti-gun slant.
The Argentine art of flirting
Kaitlin Quistgaard
A young American learns to stop resisting and love the piropo.
For love and money
Charles Taylor
A '40s English novel, recently reissued, glitters with the hard edge of Madonna's "Material Girl."
The shooters and the shrinks
Mark Boal
After Littleton, the media declared that studies show computer games lead to violence. What studies?
“I'm a uniter, not a divider”
David Horowitz
George W. Bush talks with David Horowitz about going from patrician to populist -- and from party boy to presidential front-runner.
Passion and possibility
Don George
Laurie Gough's "Kite Strings of the Southern Cross" poignantly depicts the pleasures and perils of wanderlust.
Letters to the editor
Letters to the Editor
Paglia fuels debate on schools; should we blame guns -- or government?
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