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Articles in October 2002 issue of American Prospect, The

• A cautious opposition: will Democrats block the road or pave the way to Baghdad? (Gazette).
  by Gourevitch, Alex
• How the culture war was won: lesbians and gay men defeated the right in the 1990s, but tougher battles lie ahead. (State Of The Debate).
  by Graff, E.J.
• 401(k)ave-in. (Networks).(Brief Article)
• Persons unknown.('All Over But the Shoutin',' 'Ava's Man' and 'An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood')
  by Stephenson, Wen
• Rush to judgment. (Devil In The Details).(Congressional decision on war on Iraq and November elections)
• Bad news: what the right doesn't understand about Howell Raines. (Gazette).(chief editor of New York Times)
  by Confessore, Nicholas
• Union seeks Republicans; forget the Teamsters. It's those new-age organizing unions that are going post-partisan.
  by Meyerson, Harold
• PAC attack. (Networks).(political action committees)(Brief Article)
• A not-so-novel approach: Possession's two-for-one love story is for another crowd. (The Critics Film).
  by Parker, James
• What do Afghan women want? (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Osman, Hibaaq
• War resisters: the numbers are in and the "nays" are growing. (Below The Beltway).
  by Judis, John B.
• Oregon gets taken: property-rights radicals versus our most livable state. (Gazette).
  by Ryan, John C.
• Our tropical terrorist tourist trap: as Fidel and his critics creak toward irrelevance, the push for normalized U.S.--Cuban relations grows stronger.
  by Doder, Dusko
• Whereas the moon is green cheese. (Devil In The Details).(US plans to attack Iraq)(Brief Article)
• Where's the movement? corporate reformers need to target the radically possible. (ComonWealth).
  by Penniman, Nick
• Park wars. (Correspondence).
  by Thornton, Mark V.
• In the name of national security: Bush declares war on unions. (Gazette).(George W. Bush)
  by Bacon, David
• Too hot to handle.(Book Review)
  by McNeill, Jim
• Politics profanes a noble war. (Devil In The Details).(American right wing and Gerhard Schroder)
• My tax paradise: how I (almost) felt the tropical breeze of an offshore haven. (Gazette).
  by Pein, Corey
• Closed society, open source. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Atkeson, John
• Dystopia revisited. (On The Contrary).(American civil liberties under Geroge W. Bush's administration)(Brief Article)
  by Kaminer, Wendy
• Animation sensation: why Japan's magical Spirited Away plays well anywhere. (The Critics Film).
  by Thrupkaew, Noy
• Follow the Bouncing Congress. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Mattar, John
• Bite the ballot: progressives are developing a new taste for initiatives. (Gazette).
  by Miller, Ellen S.
• Neo-cons vs. New York Times. (Correspondence).
  by Lieber, Robert J.
• Drug money: how PhRMA's front groups buy elections. (Gazette).(Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America)
  by Goozner, Merrill
• A reckless rush to war. (Comment).(George W. Bush's plans for Iraq)
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Canada's romance with market medicine: for-profit health care has failed in the U.S. So now its sponsors hope to export it north.
  by Relman, Arnold
• Stray Crats. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Helstrom, C.W.
• The best medicine. (On The Contrary).(the need for humor about September 11, 2001)(Column)
  by Kaminer, Wendy
• No choice but war? (Comment).(US-Iraq relations)(Editorial)
  by Starr, Paul
• The populist imperative. (Populism A Response).(response to Sean Wilentz denunciation of populism and Wilentz's response)
  by Willentz, Sean
• This little student went to market: when colleges sell themselves to applicants--and vice versa--fairness falls by the wayside.
  by Holman, Jeffrey T.
• Under the plume: September 11 produced a new kind of pollution, and no one knows what to do about it. (Cover Story).
  by Garrett, Laurie
• Perils of Preemptive War. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Amberg, Stephen P.
• The bullies of Burma. (Networks).(Unocal's actions in Burma)(Brief Article)
• Revolting elites. (Comment).(US foreign policy)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• The populist fantasy: wrong history, wrong politics. (Populism A Dialogue).
  by Wilentz, Sean
• Mute witnesses: a dispatch from Johannesburg. (Gazette).(World Summit on Sustainable Development)
  by Rossouw, Henk
• Dubyanomics: Bush's budget policies make Reaganomics look honest. (The Taxonomist).(George W. Bush)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• The Scandal Beyond Enron. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Stauter, Jason
• Bush's anti-regulation Czar. (Networks).(John Graham, head of Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs)
• Northern light: navigating the Maine Senate race with Chellie Pingree.
  by Mooney, Chris
• The winner-steal-all society: and the persistence of the CEO-market myth. (Gazette).
  by Useem, Jerry
• The Origin of Specious. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
• Hot stock tip: big money in Armaments. (Devil In The Details).(defense industry stocks rise)
• Corruption revisited and (maybe) reversed: now's the time to get rid of accounting firm giveaways. (The Taxonomist).
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• In Israel's interest? Not necessarily. (Beyond The Beltway).
  by Gorenberg, Gershom
• Those Jaundiced Americans. (Devil In The Details).(American and European views on war with Iraq surprisingly similar)