Executioners’ Swan Song Executioners’ Swan Song
Capital punishment will be one of the defining issues of the coming year.
Dec 22, 2000 / Editorial / The Editors
Democratic Vistas Democratic Vistas
We shall see very little of the charmingly simian George W. Bush—the military—Cheney, Powell et al.--will be calling the tune, and the whole nation will be on constant ...
Dec 22, 2000 / Editorial / Gore Vidal
Thou Shalt Not Kill Thou Shalt Not Kill
Christians are drifting away in their support of the death penalty.
Dec 22, 2000 / Feature / Marion Gross
A Talk With Governor George Ryan A Talk With Governor George Ryan
The governor issued a moratorium on executions in Illinois a year ago, after investigative-reporting students and their professor saved an innocent man from the death chamber.
Dec 22, 2000 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro
Never Again Will We View the Judiciary as Nonpolitical Never Again Will We View the Judiciary as Nonpolitical
Wait until next season. I've already started practicing my chad-punching, and I suggest the same as therapy for all who feel ripped off by the collusion between the US Supreme ...
Dec 14, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Partisanship Rules Partisanship Rules
Abolishing the Electoral College is one way the Florida fiasco could be addressed.
Dec 14, 2000 / Editorial / Eric Foner
This Is Your Country on Drugs This Is Your Country on Drugs
Our drug laws, like those concerning voting, reveal bias and backward thinking.
Dec 14, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
GOP Could Be Courting a Disaster GOP Could Be Courting a Disaster
We know what they're afraid of. Cut through the Republican verbiage that has clogged the airwaves and courts and you find one simple but disturbing point: They fear an accurate...
Dec 9, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Marital Color Line Marital Color Line
On November 7, voters in Alabama erased from that state's Constitution a provision dating from 1901 that declared that "the legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or l...
Dec 7, 2000 / Editorial / Randall Kennedy
‘Torture Them’ ‘Torture Them’
Do we want a Vice President who endorses illegal detention and torture of Palestinians? Anthony Cordesman, a national security type frequently deployed as a television pundit, re...
Nov 27, 2000 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn