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

Death Trip: The American Way of Execution

Robert Sherrill

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Christians are drifting away in their support of the death penalty.

Marion Gross

Executioners’ Swan Song

Capital punishment will be one of the defining issues of the coming year.

the Editors

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

The Nation Indicators

Doug Henwood

In Fact…

the Editors

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

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

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

These Messes Are What Deregulation Gets Us

We do need government regulation—not to build socialism but to save capitalism.

Robert Scheer

Let’s Get Our Show on the Road!

Bush v. Gore is a fitting start to the next four deranged years.

Alexander Cockburn

What Must Have Happened to Create the Supreme Court Decision in Bush v. Gore

Calvin Trillin

Dear Virginia

A Christmas letter to the state of Virginia.

Patricia J. Williams

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

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

Unsolicited Survey

Phillis Levin

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

Speak, Memory!

A review of Cherry, by Mary Karr; On Writing, by Stephen King; and Ghost Light, by Frank Rich.

Dan Wakefield

The Last Edwardian

A review of The Hill Bachelors, by William Trevor.

Eric Weinberger

The Living Thought of Military Dictatorships

Eduardo Galeano

Letters

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