The Good News Buried in the Supreme Court’s Lethal Injection Decision The Good News Buried in the Supreme Court’s Lethal Injection Decision
Both Justices Breyer and Ginsburg indicated that they view the death penalty as unconstitutional. Could three more justices agree with them in the near future?
Jun 30, 2015 / Bruce Shapiro
An Unsettling Sentence An Unsettling Sentence
On Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the federal death penalty.
May 20, 2015 / Editorial / Bruce Shapiro
What’s Wrong With the Federal Death Penalty What’s Wrong With the Federal Death Penalty
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by a federal jury in a state that firmly repudiates capital punishment.
May 19, 2015 / Bruce Shapiro
Remembering Doug Ireland Remembering Doug Ireland
To a young journalist in the early 1980s Doug seemed already to have lived an impossible number of lives.
Nov 2, 2013 / Lived History / Bruce Shapiro
The Promise of Connecticut’s Gun Legislation The Promise of Connecticut’s Gun Legislation
Sandy Hook opened a rare opportunity to change not just a few laws but the basic terms of debate over public safety and social responsibility.
Apr 10, 2013 / Editorial / Bruce Shapiro
Say Goodnight, Joe Lieberman Say Goodnight, Joe Lieberman
The senator's ideological shape-shifting has fallen out of favor.
Jan 21, 2011 / Bruce Shapiro and Margaret Spillane
Clarence Thomas’s Ethics Problems, Then and Now Clarence Thomas’s Ethics Problems, Then and Now
Ginni Thomas called Anita Hill soon after the Times reported that Thomas's organization had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in untraceable contributions. Did this accusat...
Oct 20, 2010 / Bruce Shapiro
Listening to Odetta Listening to Odetta
Her voice a force of nature and her theatrical sense undimmed, Odetta-made music of extraordinary compassion, intuition and grace.
Dec 4, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Shapiro
Studs Terkel: Vigilant Optimist Studs Terkel: Vigilant Optimist
Studs Terkel always stood for the radical idea of the long memory. Telling the stories of our times, he remained to the end a vigilant optimist about civil rights and social progre...
Nov 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Shapiro
Christopher Dodd Christopher Dodd
Strongest on human rights and civil liberties.
Nov 8, 2007 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro