January 8, 2001 Issue
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Feature
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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.
Bruce Shapiro
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
Christians are drifting away in their support of the death penalty.
Marion Gross
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Editorial
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 alert.
Gore Vidal
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Return of Legal Realism
Bush v. Gore may have superficially resolved a short-run political crisis, but it has triggered a deep intellectual crisis.
Sanford Levinson
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Clinton Follows the Money
Bill Clinton is moving to install Terry McAuliffe as the head of the DNC, a cynical move in this day of pay-to-play politics.
William Greider
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Executioners’ Swan Song
Capital punishment will be one of the defining issues of the coming year.
the Editors
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Questions for Powell
Secretary of State-designate Colin Powell needs to explain his participation in several sordid episodes of the United States' past.
David Corn
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Column
A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong
How ironic that Ashcroft's supporters now ask that he be treated with kid gloves during his own nomination hearings.
Robert Scheer
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These Messes Are What Deregulation Gets Us
We do need government regulation—not to build socialism but to save capitalism.
Robert Scheer
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Let’s Get Our Show on the Road!
Bush v. Gore is a fitting start to the next four deranged years.
Alexander Cockburn
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Let the Whitewash Begin
If the absence of soldiers seizing cable networks is the ultimate standard of meaningful democratic empowerment, we're not doing half bad.
Eric Alterman
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Books & the Arts
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Speak, Memory!
A review of Cherry, by Mary Karr; On Writing, by Stephen King; and Ghost Light, by Frank Rich.
Dan Wakefield
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A Tale of Two Venonas
A review of The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel.
Stephen Schwartz
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