McVeigh’s Last Mile McVeigh’s Last Mile
Attorney General John Ashcroft says he does not want Timothy McVeigh to "inject more poison into our culture"--a striking statement, given the method of McVeigh's execution. Accor...
Apr 19, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
The Doctor Killers The Doctor Killers
The arrest in France of James Kopp, the accused assassin of Buffalo obstetrician Barnett Slepian, could not have come at a more awkward time for the Bush Administration. Bush inau...
Apr 5, 2001 / Editorial / Bruce Shapiro
Making the Case in Albany Making the Case in Albany
While most of the 1,500 people who traveled to Albany from all over New York State last Tuesday endured freezing winds outside the legislature to tell stories of families torn ...
Rainbow School Colors Rainbow School Colors
On March 27, a federal district court struck down the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action admissions plan, ruling that the school's interest in a diverse studen...
Mar 30, 2001 / Editorial / David Cole
Here Come the Judges Here Come the Judges
All signs point to an all-out drive by the Bush Administration to slot judicial conservatives into the eighty-nine current vacancies on the federal bench. The recent to-do about e...
Mar 30, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
The Worst Drug Laws The Worst Drug Laws
Adrian Wilson can't make a lobbying trip to Albany anytime soon: The New York State Department of Corrections does not escort its prisoners to the state capital for teach-ins. B...
Mar 22, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Zapatistas on the March Zapatistas on the March
Many compared it to marching through a dream. After seven years under siege by 70,000 Mexican Army troops in the jungles and highlands of Chiapas, the Zapatista National Liberat...
Mar 22, 2001 / Editorial / Al Giordano
An Out-of-Control Court An Out-of-Control Court
Unchastened by the widespread denunciation of their election decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative bloc seems determined to continue using its one-vote majority to ram throu...
Mar 8, 2001 / Editorial / Herman Schwartz
Plan Colombia Plan Colombia
Wrong issue, wrong enemy, wrong country.
Mar 1, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Hate Versus Death Hate Versus Death
Almost every week, it seems, we get to read about some state execution, performed or imminent, wreathed in the usual toxic fog of race or sex prejudice, or incompetency of ...
Feb 23, 2001 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn