Plan Colombia

Wrong issue, wrong enemy, wrong country.

Marc Cooper

A Fete for the End of the End of History

At Brazil's "counter-Davos," democracy was in; elitism, corporations were out.

Naomi Klein

Pardons in Perspective

We learned a few things from Dan Burton's hearings into the Clinton pardons. We learned that Bill Clinton's pardon of billionaire expatriate Marc Rich was no last-minute rush job.

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Charity for All

President George W. Bush's effort to repeal the estate tax has revealed contradictions in the nonprofit sector and confusion about what it values and where it stands.

Mark Rosenman

Retour du Socialisme?

Frédéric Martel

People’s Power in CA

William Bradley

The Florida Fog

David Corn

Bosnian Women Witness

Slavenka Drakulic

Bush’s Bogus Budget

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In Fact…

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The Pardoner’s Tale

During his closing weeks in office, Bill Clinton refused a plea, signed by many leading lawyers and civil libertarians, that he declare a moratorium on capital punishment. The moratorium enjoys quite extensive support among Republicans and is gaining ground with public opinion; its imposition would undoubtedly have given a vital second chance to defendants and convicts who are in dire need of it. Clinton waved the petition away. So I think we can safely dispense with the argument being put forward by some of his usual apologists--that his sale of indulgences in The Pardoner's Tale was motivated by his own fellow feeling for those trapped in the criminal justice system. His fellow feeling is for fellow crooks, now as ever.

Christopher Hitchens

Anti-Catholic? Round Two

Katha Pollitt

Many a US President Pays the Pardon Piper

Robert Scheer

Some Cyberspace of Her Own

Bronwyn Garrity

In Our Orbit

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Anti-Catholic? Round Two

Katha Pollitt

The Spanish Mien

Ilan Stavans

Electoral College–Flunking Out?

Lani Guinier and Our Readers