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Articles in January 2002 issue of American Prospect, The

• Can Buffy's brilliance last? (Television).(Buffy the Vampire Slayer)(teen life in television programs)(Critical Essay)
  by Epps, Garrett
• ... and Clean Air battles. (Networks).(Brief Article)
• Liberty since 9-11. (Comment).(history of war and civil rights repression)(Brief Article)
  by Starr, Paul
• Onward, Christian moguls: the lord and the FCC provide a televangelical bonanza.(Statistical Data Included)
  by Koerner, Brendan I.
• First step or last gasp? Al-Qaeda as anticolonial travesty. (Below the Beltway).
  by Judis, John B.
• Tax and spend. (Correspondence).
  by Nadler, Leonard
• Postcards from the edge. (The Critics Film).(Critical Essay)
  by Hoffman, Adina
• Recess wars ... (Networks).(Brief Article)
• A politics of denial: are the world's fledgling NGOs a match for its repressive governments?(Non-governmental associations)
  by Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
• Breaking Gridlock: Moving toward Transportation That Works. (Books in review: planes, trains, and air taxis). (book review)
  by Fingleton, Eamonn
• Enron's end: no one pushed harder for deregulation, and no one had more to conceal, than this pillar of the new economy.(Statistical Data Included)
  by Bradley, William
• Fast-track attack and Davos by the Hudson. (Networks).(presidential trade negotiating authority)(Brief Article)
• Here's hard times. (Correspondence).
  by Dailey, William J.
• Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. (Books in review: illuminating the enlightenment). (book review)
  by Valelly, Richard M.
• Gun shy. (On The Contrary).(firearm ownership and law)(Brief Article)
  by Kaminer, Wendy
• They're back! (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)
• The costs of orthodoxy: Argentina was the poster child for austerity and obedience to the IMF formula. Not surprisingly, its economy tanked.(International Monetary Fund)
  by Seman, Ernesto
• Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel. (Books in review: planes, trains, and air taxis). (book review)
  by Fingleton, Eamonn
• War and the constitution: Bush's military tribunals haven't got a legal leg to stand on.(President George W. Bush)
  by Fletcher, George P.
• Welfare to what? (Networks).(welfare-to-work programs)(Brief Article)
• Home-court advantage. (Correspondence).
  by Hiser, David
• Springtime for Democrats? (Comment).(Democratic Party must plan for next year)(Brief Article)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do about It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs. (Books in review: the other war at home). (book review)
  by Parsons, Emily
• Tougher than terror: to fight criminal terrorism, we need to strengthen our domestic and global system of criminal justice, not militarize it.
  by Slaughter, Anne-Marie
• School sprays. (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)
• Starved for attention: Globalization has increased the need to end hunger in the developing nations--and has provided the means to do it.
  by Sechler, Susan
• From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States. (State of the debate: solidarity strikes out). (book review)
  by Jefferson, Cowie
• Ashcroft's hypocrisy: it's double-standard time at the new model justice department.(Attorney General John Ashcroft)
  by Schrag, Peter
• Preventing another Florida. (Networks).(presidential election)(Brief Article)
• The business of America. (Correspondence).
  by Lincoln, Jetson E.
• GOP charitable giving. (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. (Books in review: getting by). (book review)
  by Rips, Geoff
• Supply-side stupor: the energy-policy alternative to Saudi dependency isn't Arctic drilling. It's efficient use.
  by Lovins, L. Hunter
• Going down as it came up. (Devil in the Details).(Brief Article)
• A deal built on sand: at the Doha meetings, the World Trade Organization got back on the fast track. But a train wreck lies just ahead.
  by Faux, Jeff
• Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century. (State of the debate: solidarity strikes out). (book review)
  by Jefferson, Cowie
• Freeh's reign: at Louis Freeh's FBI, with carte blanche from congressional Republicans, real cops didn't do intelligence and counterterrorisrn.
  by Franklin, Daniel
• Dewey defeats Truman.(media coverage of New York City's mayoral candidates)(Brief Article)
• Excusing terror. (Correspondence).
  by Rabson, Gus
• If at first you don't succeed ... (Devil In The Details).(Republican tax policy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. (Books in review: spy tech). (book review)
  by Mooney, Chris
• Why there was no stimulus bill? (Taxonomist).(Brief Article)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• Fair-weather friend. (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• Globalism's discontents: integration with the global economy works just fine when sovereign countries define the terms. It works disastrously when terms are dictated.
  by Stiglitz, Joseph E.
• Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans. (State of the debate: solidarity strikes out). (book review)
  by Jefferson, Cowie
• A Merry Christmas for tax-credit abusers. (The Taxonomist).(Brief Article)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• Bless you, little redundancy. (Devil In The Details).(United States Postal Service management)(Brief Article)
• Our democratic Lords. (Comment).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
  by Meyerson, Harold
• How to judge globalism: global links have spread knowledge and raised average living standards. But the present version of globalism needlessly harms the world's poorest.
  by Sen, Amartya
• Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. (Books in review: the control of ideas). (book review)
  by Scialabba, George
• The war at home: wartime used to entail national unity and sacrifice. (Gazette).
  by Lipsky, Michael
• Feinstein's Rule. (Correspondence).
  by Johnson, Bob
• Free markets and poverty: since 1980, as the world has deregulated its markets, income gaps have widened. Why is this record heralded as a success?(Statistical Data Included)
  by Hersh, Adam
• A royal shame. (Wunderkinder).(motion picture 'The Royal Tennenbaums')(Critical Essay)
  by Parker, James
• Play dead: Sony muzzles the techies who teach a robot dog new tricks. (Gazette).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
  by Koerner, Brendan I.
• The roots of treason, explained. (Devil In The Details).(American who joined Taliban)(Brief Article)
• The Enron economy. (Comment).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. (Books in review: the control of ideas). (book review)
  by Scialabba, George
• The Coca-Cola killings: is plan Colombia funding a bloodbath of union activists? (Gazette).
  by Bacon, David
• Time's Up. (Correspondence).
  by Cooper-Smith, Jonathan
• The Mirage of progress: the economic failure of the last two decades of the twentieth century.
  by Weisbrot, Mark
• My dinner with Derrida. (Food).(social aspects of food)
  by Showalter, Elaine
• Suddenly serviceable: is this the moment for national service? (Gazette).
  by Just, Richard
• Kudos. (Correspondence).
  by Funkhouser, Cindy
• Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965. (Books in review: listening to Lyndon). (book review)
  by Alterman, Eric
• Down, Argentine way: how the IMF's darling collapsed. (Gazette).
  by Seman, Ernesto
• Smart Bomb. (Correspondence).
  by Adler, Sheri
• Medicine as a luxury: the west treats vital pharmaceuticals as just another commodity. If poor countries can't afford filet, why should they get cheap drugs?
  by Goozner, Merrill
• Tradecraft. (The Critics Film). (movie review)
  by Lesser, Wendy
• Controlling Pakistan's nukes: has the U.S. taken over the stockpile? (Gazette).
  by Singh, Ramindar
• A war economy. (Correspondence).
  by Lagace, John
• Justice for refugees: Americans are a generous people who all but ignore the world's dispossessed.
  by Schulz, William F.
• The humor and the pity. (Literature).(Critical Essay)
  by Kumar, Amitava
• Bush-league economics: our bum steers for Argentina and Japan. (Below The Beltway).
  by Judis, John B.
• I $ New York. (Correspondence).
  by Nyhart, Nick
• Globalism and poverty.
  by Kuttner, Robert
• Ignorant bliss. (On the Contrary).(US public opinion towards the war against terrorism)(Brief Article)
  by Kaminer, Wendy
• Homegrown horror: the prospects for all-American bioterrorism. (Gazette).
  by Isenberg, David
• Drawing board. (Correspondence).
  by Eddinton, Pat