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March 1988 Issue
March 1988 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Justice in the Middle
    Gene B. Sperling
  • Sixty
    Philip Booth
  • Some Differences Between Men and Women
    Ethel S. Person
  • Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Make Way!
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Binstead's Safari
    Phoebe-Lou Adams

Washington: Justice in the Middle

On the jurisprudence of Sandra Day O’Connor, possibly the swing vote on the new Supreme Court

By Gene Sperling
March 1988 Issue
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