A Talk With Governor George Ryan 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.
Dec 22, 2000 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro
Return of Legal Realism Return of Legal Realism
Bush v. Gore may have superficially resolved a short-run political crisis, but it has triggered a deep intellectual crisis.
Dec 22, 2000 / Editorial / Sanford Levinson
Death Trip: The American Way of Execution Death Trip: The American Way of Execution
Dec 22, 2000 / Feature / Robert Sherrill
What Must Have Happened to Create the Supreme Court Decision in Bush v. Gore What Must Have Happened to Create the Supreme Court Decision in Bush v. Gore
Though "activist" is what they've railed against, These five Supremes said, "Just this once, let's try it. We know which candidate we want to win. We'll simply find some law to justify it."
Dec 22, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Democratic Vistas 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 ...
Dec 22, 2000 / Editorial / Gore Vidal
Never Again Will We View the Judiciary as Nonpolitical Never Again Will We View the Judiciary as Nonpolitical
Wait until next season. I've already started practicing my chad-punching, and I suggest the same as therapy for all who feel ripped off by the collusion between the US Supreme ...
Dec 14, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
This Is Your Country on Drugs This Is Your Country on Drugs
Our drug laws, like those concerning voting, reveal bias and backward thinking.
Dec 14, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Partisanship Rules Partisanship Rules
Abolishing the Electoral College is one way the Florida fiasco could be addressed.
Dec 14, 2000 / Editorial / Eric Foner
GOP Could Be Courting a Disaster GOP Could Be Courting a Disaster
We know what they're afraid of. Cut through the Republican verbiage that has clogged the airwaves and courts and you find one simple but disturbing point: They fear an accurate...
Dec 9, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Marital Color Line Marital Color Line
On November 7, voters in Alabama erased from that state's Constitution a provision dating from 1901 that declared that "the legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or l...
Dec 7, 2000 / Editorial / Randall Kennedy