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• Mike Ovitz Got Away With Murder ... And I helped him.
  Graef Crystal Dec. 22, 1996
  
• Unlock 'Em Up A lock-'em-up hard-liner makes the case for probation.
  John J. DiIulio Jr. Dec. 21, 1996
  
• Talk, Talk, Talk.. Do pundits like me have any effect on policy?
  Herbert Stein Dec. 21, 1996
  
• The CPI Trap Have Republican revolutionaries outfoxed themselves?
  David Mastio Dec. 14, 1996
  
• Social Security: From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game A prejudiced primer on privatization.
  Michael Kinsley Dec. 14, 1996
  
• The New Politics of the Drug War Voters in California and Arizona just said no to draconian laws.
  Jefferson Morley Dec. 14, 1996
  
• Gimme Some Skin Why shouldn't Dalmatians be made into coats?
  David Plotz Dec. 7, 1996
  
• Unplug the DOE! Why Clinton should abolish the Department of Energy.
  Steve Chapman Nov. 28, 1996
  
• Newsweek's Major Embarrassment He's called Col. Hackworth.
  David Plotz Nov. 28, 1996
  
• Blood in the Desert Holyfield pummeled Tyson, but here's why the bookmakers took the real beating.
  Dan Seligman Nov. 23, 1996
  
• Why Kids Have Kids Don't blame welfare, blame "technology shock."
  George A. Akerlof Nov. 16, 1996
  
• Bill Moyers' Leviticus: A Listless Conversation 
  Jeffrey Itell Nov. 16, 1996
  
• Asian or American? John Huang, dual loyalty, and the myth of dual identity.
  Eric Liu Nov. 15, 1996
  
• A Goose-Step Guide to Dating What's weird about The Rules.
  Katha Pollitt Nov. 9, 1996
  
• Labor's Cheap Thrill It only took $35 million for unions to become the bad guys again.
  Thomas Geoghegan Nov. 2, 1996
  
• The Culture of Impotence The dubious merits of drug-induced virility.
  Franklin Foer Nov. 1, 1996
  
• Give This Subsidy a D- The wasteful and unfair federal student-loan programs.
  David Mastio Oct. 26, 1996
  
• Waiting for Nov. 5 The candidates, à la Beckett.
  Alex Ross Oct. 26, 1996
  
• Tangled Wires The intellectual confusion and hypocrisy of the Wired crowd.
  Peter Huber Oct. 19, 1996
  
• No headline 
  Jodie T. Allen Oct. 19, 1996
  
• The Virtue of Inefficient Government The case against making the trains run on time.
  Nathan Myhrvold Oct. 18, 1996
  
• Teen-age Midol Junkies The latest front in the war on drugs.
  Wendy Kaminer Oct. 12, 1996
  
• Clinton and Blair: What's Left? The American president and the next British prime minister are strikingly alike: They are both conservatives in denial.
  Clive Crook Oct. 4, 1996
  
• Patrick O'Brien's The Last Campaign 
  Michael Dolan Sept. 21, 1996
  
• Clinton's the One The coming landslide looks less like Reagan in '84 than Nixon in '72.
  Jodie T. Allen Sept. 20, 1996
  
• Insufficient Funds The crazy economics of Internet content ... like, er, Slate ...
  Nathan Myhrvold Sept. 20, 1996
  
• Party of One Is it Un-American to be childless?
  Wendy Wasserstein Sept. 14, 1996
  
• Mother's Little Tax Break What's Wrong With the Homemaker IRA.
  Lindsay Sobel Sept. 13, 1996
  
• The Norplant Option A sensible, humane alternative that wasn't even considered during the welfare-reform debate.
  Stuart Taylor Jr. Aug. 29, 1996
  
• Blood Simple The politics of miscegenation.
  Eric Liu Aug. 22, 1996
  
• Mars to Humanity: Get Over Yourself So you're a human being. Well, isn't that special?
  Nathan Myhrvold Aug. 15, 1996
  
• The Warlords of Democracy "Of the people" might not mean a surer peace.
  Paul A. Goble Aug. 2, 1996
  
• What's Wrong With "Victims' Rights"? The case against an unassailable concept.
  Steve Chapman Aug. 2, 1996
  
• The Bull Street Journal 
  Aug. 1, 1996
  
• Diamonds in the Rough Two cheers for the new baseball palaces.
  John Pastier Aug. 1, 1996
  
• The ABCs of Communitarianism A devil's dictionary.
  Fareed Zakaria July 26, 1996
  
• The Logistics of Presidential Adultery 
  David Plotz July 25, 1996
  
• Speech and Spillover The Supreme Court probably will overturn the notorious Communications Decency Act. But the issues are not as cut-and-dried as some might suggest.
  Eugene Volokh July 19, 1996
  
• We Are Pragmatic The Philosophy of USA Today.
  Carlin Romano July 19, 1996
  
• Electric Chairs Dream furniture for reading online.
  Michael Kinsley July 18, 1996
  
• Maledictoratory The high costs of low language.
  Alan Ehrenhalt July 12, 1996
  
• Four More Years? What history tells us about presidents' second terms.
  Michael R. Beschloss July 11, 1996
  
• The Olympic Gene Pool Why the human race keeps getting faster.
  Andrew Berry July 5, 1996
  
• The Beasts on the Bus Run for your life! Now the press is actually hitting people. Even saintly C-SPAN has turned violent.
  Roger Simon July 4, 1996
  
• Bob Woodward's Next Book 
  Jeffrey Itell July 4, 1996
  
• The Temptation of Bob Dole Dole is sorely tempted to forget everything he knows about the 1980s tax cuts. Here's a reminder.
  Jodie T. Allen June 25, 1996
  
• Jews in Second Place When Asian-Americans become the "new Jews," what happens to the Jews?
  Nicholas Lemann June 25, 1996