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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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