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...knows that better than the Republicans, who from Richard Nixon through the Willie Horton episode have campaigned as the law-and-order party. Now they face a backlash from the same culture of fear and suspicion they benefited from before. Casting yourself as the answer to an "assault" on children isn't just a means of getting votes; it can also justify power grabs. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales argued last month before a Senate committee that Internet service providers should be required to keep a massive database of their clients' activity, ostensibly to track down child pornography. In 2002, Foley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Foley's Real Sin Was ...: Breaking America's Favorite Taboo | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paranoid in Tehran | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...again. I think the clubs were popular against all odds for a quarter of a century, and the whole nightclub phenomenon ran its course. When the 1980s turned conservative politically and sexually with Reagan in the White House and the arrival of AIDS, I think there was a backlash to the social-sexual change that took place in the latter part of the '60s and the '70s. So I think it was a more conservative time. I think in the last half-dozen years the brand itself, both in America and globally, has become very hot again - I think there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q & A: Hugh Hefner | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...Wildmon of the American Family Association, Gary Bauer of American Values and Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation. "We are very concerned that the early warnings of Mr. Foley's odd behavior toward young male pages may have been overlooked or treated with deference, fearing a backlash from the radical gay rights movement because of Mr. Foley's sexual orientation," the group said. "It appears that the integrity of the conservative majority has given way to political correctness." If Republican ground troops are as convinced as their leaders that the party coddled Foley, that conservative majority may find itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Right-Wing Rebellion on the Foley Scandal | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nation of Holocaust Deniers? | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

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