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Unacknowledged legislators impeached: why isn't the United States doing more for its poets laureate?		Dec 1, 2009	1082
Hollywood comrades: why the Soviets were such lovable movie villains.		Nov 1, 2009	1095
The Debtorship Society: more Americans became "homeowners" While owning less and less of their homes.		Oct 1, 2009	1067
Inflation and you: partners in freedom.		Oct 1, 2009	213
The shifting frontiers of animal rights: activists yawn as animals lurch toward a hybrid future.		Aug 1, 2009	1015
Sympathy for the investment banker: who killed Bear Stearns? After all, it was you and me.	Book review	Jul 1, 2009	2313
We often dream of trains.	Book review	Jul 1, 2009	138
Dickens is back. Watch your wallet. If you want to understand the economy, don't turn to the author of Oliver Twist for answers.		Jul 1, 2009	1010
Hired news: will P.R. pros take the baton of investigative journalism?		Jun 1, 2009	1037
Don't measure me, bro: why broadcasters fear accurate audience ratings.		May 1, 2009	969
Stop the great chastisement, I'm not getting off: why aren't opponents of consumption happy about the recession?		Apr 1, 2009	962
Hate, 8, and the Golden State: Proposition 8 supporters are being blacklisted. So what?		Mar 1, 2009	1036
In search of lost principle: the Republicans could benefit from rereading their two-page masterpiece.		Feb 1, 2009	1134
Houses of pain: when did declining home prices become politically intolerable?		Jan 1, 2009	3402
The end is near: why does the land of plenty love dystopias?		Jan 1, 2009	1188
Stop the journalismisms! The media business is chock full of platitudes, most of them wrong.		Dec 1, 2008	1112
Every man a derrida: a nation on the verge of self-deconstructing.		Nov 1, 2008	1078
When free love died: why the sexual revolution plays only in reruns.		Oct 1, 2008	1044
The (diminishing) return of Pandering: politicians keep doling out giveaways to a public that increasingly doesn't want any.	Essay	Aug 1, 2008	1019
Classical gasbags: mavens moan about the decline of longhair music, but listeners are hitting all high C's.		Jul 1, 2008	1054
Not ready for sub-prime players: borrowing's fine; debt's a national crisis.		Jun 1, 2007	648
We the living dead: the convoluted politics of zombie cinema.		Feb 1, 2007	3161
Contact killings: the new normal in Iraq.		Jan 1, 2007	267
March of the moles: surveilling Americans.		Dec 1, 2006	238
Casual sex, Sunni style: "visit" marriages.		Dec 1, 2006	371
Alan Moore comes like a thief in the night: a writer with a libertarian following delivers some flaccid porn.		Nov 1, 2006	1048
Flood money: FEMA, Katrina, and fraud.	Brief article	Oct 1, 2006	250
Hit list: deadly sex offender registries.	Brief article	Aug 1, 2006	284
Financial friendly fire: dead and wounded debtors.	Brief article	Aug 1, 2006	226
Happy 40th birthday, Star Trek: why Captain Kirk's story is the story of America.		Aug 1, 2006	4585
Bomb smugglers: border security woes.	Brief article	Jul 1, 2006	232
Literary paper lions: book packagers, drunken exaggerations, hoaxes: why do we still expect authenticity from bestsellers?		Jul 1, 2006	1047
Next beer in Jerusalem: Boozing with Hamas.	Brief article	Jun 1, 2006	281
Do they dare to say "impeach"? One person's airtight legal case is another's "stay out the Bushes.".		Jun 1, 2006	654
Sucking in the mid-to-late '70s: how the Carter-Reagan era set the course for contemporary America.	Book review	Jun 1, 2006	2671
Nature boy for property rights.	Brief article	Jun 1, 2006	235
Cartoons makes cowards of us all: American editors pine: "if we only had the nerve.".		May 1, 2006	659
Everything is not illuminated.	Brief article	May 1, 2006	222
Middle-class warfare: military recruits and poverty.	Brief Article	Mar 1, 2006	297
Hold the good news: Iraq's pathetic payoff.		Feb 1, 2006	645
The case of the invisible Moose.	Brief Article	Feb 1, 2006	181
Kentucky school days: the four-day school week.	Brief Article	Jan 1, 2006	218
Critics in Blue Helmets: the U.N. blocks the only invasion where they really do welcome us with flowers.		Jan 1, 2006	600
The Crescent city and the fiscal black hole: how a phantom golf game made a ghost of fiscal responsibility.		Dec 1, 2005	641
Run away, jury! We're being tried before dozens of imbeciles.		Nov 1, 2005	653
Property seizures and the New London tea party: homeowners' attorney Scott Bullock talks about the Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London decision and America's brewing revolution against eminent domain abuse.	Interview	Nov 1, 2005	3120
Prince Rudy's Courtier: a mugged liberal's love affair with a tough mayor.	Book Review	Nov 1, 2005	2707
How reforms evolve: creationists push "bill of rights".	Brief Article	Oct 1, 2005	299
Rummy in the dock: climbing the chain of command.	Brief Article	Jun 1, 2005	228
Iraq's Summer Soldiers.	Letter to the Editor	Apr 1, 2005	172
Uncle Sam's barbecue: USDA identity crisis.	Brief Article	Apr 1, 2005	191
San Francisco unwired: Boondoggles by the bay.		Feb 1, 2005	326
Bridget Jones, super spy: Chick Lit goes to war.		Feb 1, 2005	780
Iraq's summer soldiers: liberal hawks as ideological deserters.		Jan 1, 2005	625
Love for sale: Berkeley's prostitution initiative.	Brief Article	Oct 1, 2004	278
Space oddities: owning the heavens.	Brief Article	Aug 1, 2004	323
Defending divorce: anger, bargaining, acceptance.	Brief Article	Jul 1, 2004	234
Ulysses unbound: why does a book so bad it "defecates on your bed" still have so many admirers?	Critical Essay	Jul 1, 2004	2623
Small town blues: regulating apartments away.	Brief Article	Jun 1, 2004	245
Textbook tolerance: Gulf of Hate.	Brief Article	Apr 1, 2004	172
Sin of wages: living wages, killing restaurants.	Brief Article	Feb 1, 2004	254
Bad report card: strange study habits at GAO.		Feb 1, 2004	319
Political body snatchers: how can you tell the evil party from the stupid party?		Feb 1, 2004	641
In God's country: thanks be to the American Atheist.	Book Review	Feb 1, 2004	2114
Talking with terrorists: Jessica Stern's new book reports from the front lines of the war on terror.		Nov 1, 2003	1499
Albino blues: the Winter of copyright discontent. (Citings).		Aug 1, 2003	341
Account balance: can the government really ensure "corporate accountability"?		Aug 1, 2003	626
Low budget: feeling blue and seeing red over a free-spending administration. (Rant).		Jul 1, 2003	671
Standard issue: The dot-com tragedy denied. (Culture and Reviews).	Book Review	May 1, 2003	1653
Space balls. (Rent).		Apr 1, 2003	649
The spirit of '73: an ugly nostalgia sweeps the globe. (Rant).	Column	Feb 1, 2003	673
Foreign intrigue: what explains the presidential urge to go global? (Rant).	Column	Dec 1, 2002	664
E pluribus umbrage: the long, happy life of America's anti-defamation industry.	Critical Essay	Dec 1, 2002	6206
Shoot the messenger: Hollywood calls Western Union again.		May 1, 2002	1475
Bloviation Nation: Why are we so ashamed that pundits rule? (Culture and Reviews).	Brief Article	Apr 1, 2002	807
Ironic Engagement: The hidden agenda of the anti-ironists.	Brief Article	Dec 1, 2001	780
Paper Tigers.	Book Review	Aug 1, 2001	921
Down in the Flood.		Mar 1, 2001	773