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• The Demonizing of Tom Daschle How journalists follow the party line.
  Jonathan Chait Dec. 21, 2001
  
• Crèche Test Dummies Nativity scenes on public lands are illegal, rules the Supreme Court. Except when they're not.
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 21, 2001
  
• The Osama Sweepstakes When you win, the whole world wins with you!
  Matt Richtel Dec. 14, 2001
  
• Free the Sharks! Payday loan operations are kosher. So why not loan sharks?
  Brendan I. Koerner Dec. 10, 2001
  
• The Deficit President And how he's getting away with it.
  Jonathan Chait Dec. 3, 2001
  
• Iraq Not Why the sudden urgency about taking Saddam down?
  Steve Chapman Nov. 29, 2001
  
• Prisoners Dilemma We've vanquished the Taliban. Now what do we do with them?
  David Plotz Nov. 21, 2001
  
• The Sunni-Shiite Switch How two Islamic sects traded places in the American mind.
  David Plotz Nov. 16, 2001
  
• Ashcroft Likes To Listen The Justice Department rewrites the Bill of Rights so it can eavesdrop on suspects.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 15, 2001
  
• Invisible COPS  How Clinton's plan to field 100,000 new police turned into a pork barrel as usual.
  Steve Chapman Nov. 12, 2001
  
• Ramadan Night’s All Right for Fighting But the U.S. might want to stop bombing anyway.
  Nicholas Thompson Nov. 1, 2001
  
• And Now, the Good News About Smallpox In the event of a terrorist attack, we’re not all toast.
  Jon Cohen Oct. 26, 2001
  
• Tortured Justice There are ugly ways to extract information from suspects. What are the legal limits?
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 19, 2001
  
• Hezbollah Holiday Where Islamic fundamentalism meets Dollywood.
  Negar Akhavi Oct. 17, 2001
  
• Taliban vs. Osama Bin Laden Would an Islamic court convict or acquit Bin Laden of murder?
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 12, 2001
  
• When Osama Met the Taliban Who introduced them? Our intelligence "allies," Pakistan's Interservices Intelligence Agency.
  Ken Silverstein Oct. 10, 2001
  
• Poor Excuse Don't blame Third World poverty for Sept. 11. 
  Emily Yoffe Oct. 2, 2001
  
• Osama, Saddam, and the Bombs 
  David Plotz Sept. 29, 2001
  
• Osama Bin Laden's Man Trouble Why his young men in groups are so scary.
  Lionel Tiger Sept. 28, 2001
  
• Vax Populi A viable anthrax vaccine exists. Why aren't we making it and other defensive vaccines available to the public?
  Jon Cohen Sept. 25, 2001
  
• Who's Who in the Terror War 
  David Plotz Sept. 20, 2001
  
• Did We Handcuff the CIA? The national security hawks say yes. The CIA says no.   
  David Corn Sept. 19, 2001
  
• Pakistan Primer How far can the United States push Pakistan before it cracks up?
  James Gibney Sept. 18, 2001
  
• The Mormon Stem-Cell Choir 
  Drew Clark Aug. 3, 2001
  
• G-Girl Confidential The mating mores and folkways of interns and their congressmen. 
  Dahlia Lithwick July 26, 2001
  
• Global Shootout The NRA's love-hate relationship with the New World Order.
  Mark Strauss July 20, 2001
  
• Who's Really President? Rove or Cheney?
  David Plotz July 7, 2001
  
• The New, New, New, New Federalism Bush embraces the most convenient principle. 
  David Plotz June 22, 2001
  
• Voters-Wanted Posters  Britain's political parties take to the streets to get their message out.
  Giles Wilson June 7, 2001
  
• One Down, Three to Go Jim Jeffords isn't the only Republican who should switch parties. 
  Nicholas Thompson May 25, 2001
  
• The Killing Yields The Macedonian extremists may be dangerous, but they're not crazy.
  Paul Glastris April 3, 2001
  
• Let's Ditch Dixie  The case for Northern secession. 
  Mark Strauss March 14, 2001
  
• Promise-Breaker  George W. Bush retracts his foreign policy campaign pledges.
  Joshua Micah Marshall March 6, 2001
  
• The Homeless Democrats Pity the poor Clinton policy wonks who have nowhere to go.
  Kenneth S. Baer Feb. 28, 2001