Virtual Reality Virtual Reality
In my last column, I mentioned that most actual drug users are young white people, even though most of those "profiled" as drug users are people of color. Indeed, according to th...
Mar 7, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Still Bad New Old Nixon The Still Bad New Old Nixon
It's been three decades since President Richard M.
Mar 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer
Condolences to Musharraf Condolences to Musharraf
What the Islamic fascists do, and what they believe, and what they intend, are three aspects of the same one-dimensional thing. It is ludicrous to accuse them of being untrue to th...
Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Justice, Not So Swift Justice, Not So Swift
On October 31 Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts pardoned five women who had been convicted and executed in the Salem witch trials in 1692. Well, better late than never--what's...
Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
On the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence On the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence
The OSI's intent to disinform Received responses that were less than warm. The Pentagon now says it doesn't need An office just to lie and to mislead. There is, though, one f...
Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
What’s God Got to Do With It? What’s God Got to Do With It?
God again!
Feb 26, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Evil: The Quadruple Axel Evil: The Quadruple Axel
The hoofprints of Lucifer are everywhere. And since this is America, eternally at war with the darker forces, the foremost Enemy Within is sex, no quarter given. Here are some bu...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Campaign Finance Reform Campaign Finance Reform
We're told that this campaign reform is not
The end-all of the sleaziness we've got.
But it must have some worthwhile changes in it
If Tom DeLay and Hastert are agin it.
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Better Safe…? Better Safe…?
In my last column, I called the expansion of profiling that has occurred since September 11 "equal opportunity." I meant it ironically, but a surprising number of people took me ...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Unhappy Anniversary Unhappy Anniversary
The McLaughlin Group is about to "celebrate" its twentieth anniversary. We might as well "celebrate" the discovery of anthrax. The show flatters itself--and its corporate ...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman