Articles from Washington Monthly (December 1, 2002)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Bad reruns. (Letters).	Musgrave, Paul		101
Beam me up, Scotty.	Alter, Jonathan		1290
Bean polls. (Tidbits & Outrages).			43
Bright lights, small villages: why helping Africa get solar power is good for America.	Bayon, Ricardo		3255
Bubble wrath. (Letters).			744
Bumper mentality: Americans buy SUVs to feel safer. They should buy life insurance, too.	Mencimer, Stephanie		3125
Comparative advantage: how economist Paul Krugman became the most important political columnist in America.	Confessore, Nicholas		4961
Election dejection. (Letters).			237
Great shakes. (Tidbits & Outrages).			57
He's locked up the smurf vote. (Tidbits & Outrages).			31
House negro: Why J.C. Watts is Congress' last black Republican.	Coates, Ta-Nehisi	Book Review	1234
How democrats could have won: three ideas that might have changed the election.	Glastris, Paul		2067
Mall rants. (Letters).			299
Patriot gains.	Longman, Phillip J.		913
Privatizing propaganda: Poppy Bush and his cronies rescued Dubya's Iraq policy. Now they're saving his propaganda war.	Teicholz, Nina		2228
Roadside attraction.	Greenblatt, Alan	Book Review	953
Sales to minors: can commercial culture possibly corrupt today's teens more than it did their parents?	Austin, Elizabeth		1356
Size matters.	Shapiro, Robert J.		1186
Spanish high. (Letters).			275
Still stupid?	Malanowski, Jamie		831
Talk dirty.	Larson, Christina	Book Review	913
Tilting at Windmills.	Peters, Charles		3804
Tutor restoration: Test-prep firms like The Princeton Review are invading America's grade schools. This is: a) good. b) bad.	Gorman, Siobhan		2683
UFO: "unusual former official"? (Tidbits & Outrages).			46
Unnecessary evil: China's Muslims aren't terrorists. So why did the Bush administration give Beijing the green light to oppress them?	Kurlantzick, Joshua		4084
War dames: if America invades Iraq, thousands of female U.S. soldiers will fight on the front lines.	Carter, Phillip		3637
Watch your back, Terry McAuliffe. (Tidbits & Outrages).		Brief Article	54
Who's Who.	Threadgill, Susan		560