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• Jesus and the Gospel—What Really Happened? Three historians debate.
  Alan F. Segal Dec. 21, 2005
  
• Roberts Reviewed A detective story.
  Dahlia Lithwick July 20, 2005
  
• Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Her legacy and what her resignation means for the court.
  Dahlia Lithwick July 1, 2005
  
• A Supreme Court Conversation The court of exaltation.
  Dahlia Lithwick June 23, 2005
  
• Election Week in Iraq Inside a Najaf polling place.
  Wendell Steavenson Jan. 24, 2005