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.
Christians are drifting away in their support of the death penalty.
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.
Bush v. Gore may have superficially resolved a short-run political crisis, but it has triggered a deep intellectual crisis.
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.
Capital punishment will be one of the defining issues of the coming year.
How ironic that Ashcroft's supporters now ask that he be treated with kid gloves during his own nomination hearings.
We do need government regulation—not to build socialism but to save capitalism.
Bush v. Gore is a fitting start to the next four deranged years.
If the absence of soldiers seizing cable networks is the ultimate standard of meaningful democratic empowerment, we're not doing half bad.
A review of Cherry, by Mary Karr; On Writing, by Stephen King; and Ghost Light, by Frank Rich.
A review of The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel.