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Editorial
Corporate crackdown
A new law should help end many kinds of corporate abuses, but it remains to be seen how serious the Bush administration will be in using its new regulatory muscle.

Editorial
Not the way to clear the air
The most dubious legislation often is given the most hopeful title. Such is the case with President Bush's "Clear Skies" initiative, which would probably leave the skies dirty in some of the nation's most polluted spots. The Bush plan also takes too long to achieve results, ignores carbon dioxide emissions altogether and relies too heavily on a market-based approach known as emissions trading.

Letters
Attorney general is ensuring our individual rights
Re: The NRA poster boy, editorial, July 30.

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson
Hormone therapy may be dangerous, but doing without is misery
I was packing for a trip to France last month when the news hit that the hormone replacement therapy study of the drugs I've been taking for 14 years was abruptly stopped because taking them is too dangerous.

Lucy Morgan
What other campaign surprises await us?
What fun. Now we can talk about our very own seven dwarfs.

 

Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.

Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.

Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.

Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.