The death of deference
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Comment is free: John Harris: When the Mail trains its guns on the super-rich, you can see how widely resentment has spread.
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Disdaining environmentalism in the battle against global warming.
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A baby step towards democracy, but liberal reformers lose
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Elimination of the top predator can actually be worse for the prey.
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Do future generations need a legal representative today to protect their interests? Some legal and environmental scholars think so.
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Comment is free: Karen Armstrong: Free speech is now the rallying cry of escalating tensions, but we can also use it to expose double standards on both sides.
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I'm a contrarian. It's natural. It's what happens when you're born black and male in New Orleans. You grow up questioning authority and challenging conventional wisdom. It's both a mode of survival and a disease. I have it bad. I'm addicted to argument.
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Why do well-meaning laws backfire?
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Comment is free: John Pilger: Blair and his cult have wrecked the very beliefs millions thought they were voting for. The time for direct action is now
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Analysis Fragmentation and US indifference
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In a divided ruling, justices strike down portions of federal guidelines, forcing a redrawing of the sentencing system.
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
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Americans used to guard their privacy. Now they give it up with nary a whimper. And along comes Google, to apply the coup de grace. Commentary by Tony Long.
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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Sometimes, the two concepts can blur.
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The Pope is expected to abolish the state of limbo for babies that die before baptism. Send us your views.
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Benazir Bhutto's death, says Robert Baer, should put an end to the Bush administration's policy of shoving democracy down the throat of the Muslim world