Did Ashcroft Take the Low Road on the Highroad?

When George W.

David Corn and Dan Moldea

The Clinton Era by the Numbers

David Burnham and Susan Long

Executioners’ Swan Song

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

The Editors

Thou Shalt Not Kill

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

Marion Gross

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

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

Death Trip: The American Way of Execution

Robert Sherrill

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

Calvin Trillin

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

Never Again Will We View the Judiciary as Nonpolitical

Robert Scheer