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Rosa Brooks


Recent Columns:
July 24, 2008
He looks like a cross between Santa Claus and a New Age guru, and he calls himself an alternative healer. But Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested in Serbia on Monday, stands accused of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.

July 17, 2008
I want Ritalin!

July 3, 2008
'The Constitution is not a suicide pact." After 9/11, that old saw -- originally coined by Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson -- was dusted off. Lately, it's been getting a heavy workout.

June 26, 2008
You've come a long way, baby.

June 19, 2008
No one wants to be the first candidate to invoke Sept. 11. As a campaign tactic, 9/11 chest-thumping has become both predictable and tacky. So this week, John McCain's campaign hit on a creative solution: Invoke Sept. 10.

June 12, 2008
Glug, glug, glug.

June 5, 2008
'It's the economy, stupid," said James Carville, summing up Bill Clinton's 1992 win over George H.W. Bush. Bush started out with incumbent status and an impressive resume, but he never managed to wrap his mind around the fact of the recession. In the end, he lost to Clinton -- the candidate from nowhere.

May 29, 2008
So here's the latest mystery media meme: If Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn't become the Democratic presidential nominee, "women" will be upset.

May 22, 2008
Unsolved mysteries of the universe: Where did matter come from? Why did all those ships vanish in the Bermuda Triangle? Is there really a Loch Ness Monster?

May 15, 2008
Can you forgive her?