Washington Monthly

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Articles in Dec 2002 issue of Washington Monthly

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