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• Welfare Reform
• The Courts
• Civil Rights
• Liberal Revival
• A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?
• Onward, Christian Soldiers
• The Census

Welfare Reform

• Side Effect of Welfare Law: The No-Parent Family
  Nina Bernstein, New York Times, 29 July 2002
• When Mothers on Welfare Go to Work
  Richard Rothstein, New York Times, 5 June 2002
• Strict Limits on Welfare Benefits Discourage Marriage, Studies Say
  Nina Bernstein, New York Times, 3 June 2002
• Democrats Hitch Stricter Welfare Work Rules to Child Care
  Robert Pear, New York Times, 3 May 2002
• States Worry About Bush Welfare Rules
  Robin Toner, New York Times, 30 April 2002
• Republicans Rally Behind 'Washington Knows Best' Welfare Proposals
  Robert Pear and Robin Toner, New York Times, 11 April 2002
• House G.O.P. Softens Bush Welfare Plan
  Robert Pear, New York Times, 10 April 2002
• Study by Governors Calls Bush Welfare Plan Unworkable
  Robert Pear, New York Times, 4 April 2002
• Bush's Proposal on Welfare Draws Fire From Democrats for Putting Children at Risk
  Robin Toner, New York Times (requires registration to view), 13 March 2002
• Rallies in Capital Protest Bush Welfare Proposals
  Robin Toner, New York Times, 6 March 2002
• Bush's Plan on Welfare Law Increases Work Requirement
  Robin Toner and Robert Pear, New York Times, 26 February 2002

The Courts

• External site: American Constitution Society
  Founded to "restore the fundamental principles of respect for human dignity, protection of individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful -- and traditionally central -- place in American law."
• External site: Earthjustice
  Pro-environment web site's information about nominees' records on environmental issues
• Deborah Cook Is the Typical Bush Judicial Nominee — So Watch Out
  Adam Cohen, New York Times, 25 February 2003
• Judicial Nominee Had Been Investigated for Intervening in Iraq Inquiry
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 5 February 2003
• Estrada Nomination Imperiled by Refusal to Release Papers
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 27 September 2002
• Bush overreacts to failed nomination
  Marianne Means, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 13 September 2002
• Reject Judge Brooks Smith
  editorial, New York Times, 22 May 2002
• Crybaby Republicans on judicial holdups: It's not fair!
  Bryan Keefer, Salon (complete article available to subscribers only), 14 May 2002
• More Battles Loom Over Bush's Nominees for Judgeships
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 6 April 2002
• The Senate Committee was within its rights to reject Pickering
  Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar, Findlaw's Writ, 25 March 2002
• Panel Rejects Pickering for Judgeship
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 15 March 2002
• Opposed -- but Not Borked
  Richard Cohen, Washington Post, 12 March 2002
• Vote on Bush Judicial Nominee Is Delayed
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 8 March 2002
• Senate Panel Seems Set to Vote Against Bush Judicial Nominee
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 6 March 2002
• On Eve of Vote, Bush Praises Pickering and Assails Critics
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 6 March 2002
• Judge's Ouster Sought After Antigay Remarks
  Kevin Sack, New York Times, 20 February 2002
• Blacks at Home Support a Judge Liberals Assail
  David Firestone, New York Times, 16 February 2002
• Pickering's Judicial Confirmation Hearing Evokes Civil Rights Struggle
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 8 February 2002
• Judge Pickering's Past
  Bob Herbert, New York Times, 7 February 2002
• National Feminist Leaders Protest Nomination of Alleged Batterer as Federal Prosecutor in New Orleans
  National Organization for Women, 1 February 2002
• Fight Over Judicial Nominee Charles Pickering Resumes
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 6 February 2002
• Enron Ruling by Nominee Is Being Noticed
  Jim Yardley, New York Times, 22 January 2002
• Federal Judicial Nominees Should Have Nothing to Hide
  Professor William G. Ross, Jurist, December 2001
• Democrats Are Pushed on Judicial Nominees
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 21 October 2001
• David Brock charges that Bush judicial nominee Terry Wooten gave him FBI files to discredit a key witness
  Jake Tapper, Salon, 1 September 2001
• Court ideologues should not escape scrutiny
  DeWayne Wickham, USA Today, 2 July 2001
• Texas Senators demand information about judicial candidates' past political affiliations
  Tim Fleck, Houston Press, 28 June 2001
• Daschle promises "no payback" on judicial nominees
  Alison Mitchell, New York Times, 9 June 2001
• Santorum threatens Democrats over judges
  BBC, 4 June 2001
• Partisan Battle Continues Over a Federal Appeals Bench
  David Firestone, New York Times, 21 May 2001
• White House makes pitch for conservative judges
  Joan Biskupic, USA Today, 17 May 2001
• Judges: Conferring a Lifetime of Ideology
  Jack N. Rakove, New York Times, 13 May 2001
• Democrats holding firm against GOP hypocrisy on judicial nominees
  Jake Tapper, Salon, 10 May 2001
• Bush's looming battle: filling federal bench
  Dante Chinni, Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2001
• Democrats Readying for Judicial Fight
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 1 May 2001
• Bush to Reveal First Judicial Choices Soon
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 24 April 2001
• Bush must be stopped from pursuing a political agenda through judicial nominations
  Prof. Cass R. Sunstein (University of Chicago), New York Times, 26 April 2001
• Judge Saul's bad judgment
  editorial, St. Petersburg [FL] Times, 20 April 2001
• White House Ends Bar Association's Role in Screening Federal Judges
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 23 March 2001
• US rightwingers fight to control courts
  Julian Borger, The Guardian, 20 March 2001
• President Moves Quickly on Judgeships
  Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 11 March 2001
• A Plan to Intimidate Judges
  Bob Herbert, New York Times, 4 December

Civil Rights

• The selective colorblindness of the Bush approach to affirmative action
  Elise Boddie, Slate, 30 January 2003
• Bush background under fire on affirmative action issue
  Michael Tackett, Chicago Tribune (in the Billings Gazette), 19 January 2003
• U.S. Reports Progress in Fighting Bias; Rights Groups Are Critical
  Elizabeth Olson, New York Times, 7 August 2001
• Senate Panel Backs Hate-Crime Coverage for Gays
  Adam Clymer, New York Times, 27 July 2001
• W Picks Golf Over NAACP
  John Nichols, Madison Capital Times (in CommonDreams), 13 July 2001
• The E.E.O.C. Is Short of Will and Cash
  Reed Abelson, New York Times, 1 July 2001

Liberal Revival

• Clergy Group to Counter Conservatives
  Lynette Clemetson, New York Times, 17 November 2003
• Framing the issues
  Bonnie Azab Powell, UC Berkeley News, 27 October 2003
• Why Bush Angers Liberals
  Michael Kinsley, Time, 6 October 2003
• So Conservatives Wave the Flag While Liberals Burn It?
  Peter Dreier and Dick Flacks, History News Network, 2 July 2002
• Fight or flight?
  David Talbot, Salon, 17 April 2002
• Can the left wing learn from the right?
  Steven C. Day, PopPolitics, 16 April 2002
• Ding, Dong, the Cultural Witch Hunt Is Dead
  Frank Rich, New York Times Magazine, 24 February 2002
• Poll Says College Freshmen Lean Left
  Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times (in CommonDreams), 28 January 2002
• Federal Judge Stops Ashcroft's Effort to Overturn Suicide Law
  Sam Howe Verhovek, New York Times, 9 November 2001
• Young Liberal Law Group Is Expanding
  Crystal Nix Hines, New York Times, 1 June 2001

A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?

• Also see Web sites exposing the right wing
• The US Terrorism Plot That the Media Ignored
  The Memory Hole, 4 December 2003
• Researchers help define what makes a political conservative
  Kathleen Maclay, University of California at Berkeley, 25 July 2003
• Rightwing AEI attacks charities
  Asia Times, 16 June 2003
• Evil is as Evil Does
  Mark Zepezauer, Counterpunch, 8 May 2003
• The GOP attack machine: All who are not Bushies are evil
  Dan Kennedy, Boston Phoenix, 9 May 2003
• The Strategist and the Philosopher
  Alain Frachon and Daniel Vernet, Le Monde (English translation), 15 April 2003
• How Conservatives Pigeonholed Those Poor Liberals
  Geoffrey Nunberg, New York Times, 2 March 2003
• Who's Behind the Attack on Liberal Professors?
  Dave Johnson, History News Network, 10 February 2003
• FReep This: How the right-wing is making itself heard
  Joyce Slaton, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 January 2003
• Hell Hath No Fury Like a Conservative Who Is Victorious
  Adam Cohen, New York Times, 24 November 2002
• Pseudo-Americanism
  P.M. Carpenter, History News Network, 8 October 2002
• Dissenters on campus singled out by conservative council
  Emily Eakin, New York Times (in the San Francisco Chronicle), 17 September 2002
• Strange Bedfellows: Grover Norquist and Abdurahman Alamoudi
  Seth Gitell, Boston Phoenix, 4 June 2002
• The enemies of democracy are flexing their muscles
  Environmental Research Foundation, in Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application, 24 May 2001
• In 20th century, liberals and conservatives reversed roles
  P.M. Carpenter, History News Network, 6 May 2002
• David Brock & the Watergate Legacy
  Robert Parry, ConsortiumNews, 6 May 2002
• Brock blows cover off vast right-wing conspiracy
  Bill Press, CNN, 2 April 2002
• The Smoke Machine
  Paul Krugman, New York Times, 29 March 2002
• Back Into the Muck
  Eric Alterman, The Nation, 25 March 2002
• Going Beyond Mere Facts in the Study of History
  Richard Rothstein, New York Times, 6 March 2002
• A right-wing conspirator comes clean
  review by Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker, 4 March 2002
• Montana Sheriff Contends Right-Wing Militia Plotted Killings
  Jim Robbins, New York Times, 1 March 2002
• Speaking Out Draws Wrath of Snipers
  David Rossie, Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin (in CommonDreams), 10 February 2002
• Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity'
  Steven Zak, USA Today, 22 January 2002
• The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations
  Media Transparency
• The right sort (part 1)
  Eric Alterman, Guardian (UK), 15 December 2001
• What’s Doing in Dittoland
  P. M. Carpenter, History News Network, 26 November 2001
• White Power and Al Qaeda Unite Against America
  James Ridgeway, Village Voice, 31 October 2001
• Anthrax attacks' 'work of neo-Nazis'
  Ed Vulliamy, Observer (UK), 28 October 2001
• "Just Say No" Abstinence Education Spreading in Spite of Absence of Results
  Zoe Williams, Guardian (UK), 20 October 2001
• Republicans more likely than Democrats to have nightmares, says researcher
  Jennifer McNulty, UC Santa Cruz Currents, 9 July 2001
• Conservatives attack tax status of environmental group
  Glen Martin, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 June 2001
• Bush's Moves to Assure Right Ignite Storm on Left
  Richard W. Stevenson, New York Times, 8 April 2001
• Right-wing foundations in the tank for Bush?
  Paul Krugman, New York Times, 13 December 2000
• Republican right challenges Dubya's unifying promise
  Martin Kettle, The Guardian, 8 December 2000
• Inner Circle Likely to Extend Its Orbit to a Bush White House
  Frank Bruni, New York Times, 8 December 2000
• The Renaissance of Anti-Intellectualism
  Todd Gitlin, Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 December 2000 issue
• From the Anti-Gore Right, a Battle Cry of 'Stop, Thief!'
  Robin Toner, New York Times, 26 November 2000
• The Conservative Cabal That's Transforming American Law
  Jerry M. Landay, Media Transparency, March 2000
• Scaife: Funding Father of the Right
  Robert G. Kaiser and Ira Chinoy, wp, 2 May 1999

Onward, Christian Soldiers

• The Evangelical Roots of American Unilateralism
  Duane Oldfield, Information Clearing House, March 2004
• White House consulted with apocalyptic Christians before deciding Israel policy
  Rick Perlstein, Village Voice, 18 May 2004
• A catastrophe for the conservatives: abstinence education leads to pregnancy
  Sydney Morning Herald, 14 May 2004
• Abuse photos undermine Bush's religious rhetoric
  Don Lattin, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2004
• Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power
  George Monbiot, The Guardian, 20 April 2004
• The Christian Taliban
  Stephen Pizzo, AlterNet, 28 March 2004
• The battle for American science
  Oliver Burkeman and Alok Jha, The Guardian, 10 April 2003
• Bush Stacking Science Panels with Ideologues
  J.R. Pegg, Albion Monitor, 23 January 2003
• Religious leaders uneasy with Bush's rhetoric
  Ann McFeatters, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12 February 2003
• Jesus and the FDA
  Karen Tumulty, Time, 5 October 2002
• Rightwing and Public Stations Battle for Share of Radio Dial
  Blaine Harden, New York Times, 13 September 2002
• When Patriotism Wasn't Religious
  Arthur Schlesinger Jr., New York Times, 7 July 2002
• Baptist Pastor Attacks Islam, Inciting Cries of Intolerance
  Susan Sachs, New York Times, 15 June 2002
• "Jerusalem Calling"
  Suzy Hansen, Salon, 20 March 2002
• More jobs, not more marriages, lift poor
  Julianne Malveaux, USA Today, 23 February 2002
• US schools ban Darwin from class
  Robin McKie, Observer (UK), 24 February 2002
• Welfare Chief Is Hoping to Promote Marriage
  Robin Toner, New York Times, 19 February 2002
• Christian Anti-Embalming Group Suspected in Killings of Undertakers
  John W. Fountain, New York Times, 15 February 2002
• Churches on Right Seek Right to Back Candidates
  Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, 3 February 2002
• The Choice of Christmas Future
  Bill C. Davis, CommonDreams, 24 December 2001
• Seeing the light
  Carolyn S. Briggs, Salon, 21 December 2001
• Falwell Is Raising Money to Press Conservative Family Agenda
  Richard L. Berke, New York Times, 14 December 2001
• Aide Says Bush Will Do More to Marshal Religious Base
  Richard L. Berke, New York Times, 12 December 2001
• A Creeping Theocracy
  Sherry F. Colb, FindLaw, 21 November 2001
• As Attacks' Impact Recedes, a Return to Religion as Usual
  Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, 26 November 2001
• Christian School Questioned Over Discipline for Wayward
  Rick Bragg, New York Times, 5 July 2001
• The hypocrisy of moral big government
  Geneva Overholser, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3 June 2001

The Census

• Prison inmates counted for redistricting purposes
  Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2004
• Census Bureau released incorrect data, stonewalls on corrections
  David S. Bernstein, Boston Phoenix, 23 April 2004
• Judge Allows Unusual Bid to Get Data From Census
  David E. Rosenbaum, New York Times, 26 January 2002
• Critics Want Census Data Made Public
  Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 26 June 2001
• Los Angeles Will Challenge Bush on Census
  Steven A. Holmes, New York Times, 21 February 2001

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