The FBI in Peace and War The FBI in Peace and War
The FBI knows every way To put a case in disarray. For years they managed to mislay Some tapes a Birmingham DA Could use against the KKK. Because some files had gone astray ...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The First 2,920 Days The First 2,920 Days
I was driving my son to soccer practice not long ago, listening to a National Public Radio wrap-up of President Bush's first hundred days in office. My son, who was just a baby w...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Leave No Child Behind? Leave No Child Behind?
I scanned all the cheap effusions that followed the Bob Kerrey disclosures, looking for just one mention of just one name. Ron Ridenhour. Ron was the GI who got wind of the My La...
May 10, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Happy Mother’s Day Happy Mother’s Day
When we left that old journalistic evergreen, the evils of daycare, two weeks ago, the media hysteria over the NICHD study had just about peaked. The researchers had begun to tur...
May 10, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Beat The Beat
TICKED-OFF TEACHERS Washington State teachers got a bitter civics lesson this spring, as legislators refused to implement fully plans to reduce class sizes and increase pay for t...
May 10, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
Without Fear, Favor or Ombudsman Without Fear, Favor or Ombudsman
The New York Times could benefit from having an in-house arbitrator.
May 3, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Hate-Crimes Follies Hate-Crimes Follies
Charging people with a "hate crime" when their crime is essentially some type of assault is a troubling trend.
May 3, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Stochastic Aptitude Test The Stochastic Aptitude Test
A parody of Gone With the Wind has run into legal trouble: too revealing of the real nature of slavery?
May 3, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Covenant With Death Covenant With Death
The death penalty needs to be thought through by liberals, and its acceptance or rejection cannot be á la carte.
Apr 26, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Childcare Scare Childcare Scare
Studies on the effects of childcare on the young are colored by researchers' views about educated women who go to work.
Apr 26, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt