Stealth Vouchers Stealth Vouchers
While most of the media focused, with good reason, on the huge increase in military spending and dramatic cuts in domestic programs in President Bush's $2.1 trillion budget propos...
Mar 22, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz
The Migrant’s Story The Migrant’s Story
A Mexican migrant acquaintance once told me that he'd love the opportunity to brief Congress on immigration policy. Let us imagine him now, walking into the hallowed chamber, dress...
Mar 21, 2002 / Rubén Martinez
Fighting the War at Home Fighting the War at Home
Targeted by authorities, immigrants are organizing to defend their rights.
Mar 14, 2002 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Central Asia’s Heroin Problem Central Asia’s Heroin Problem
From Afghan farms into the Tajik mountains, the drug trade cuts a wide swath.
Mar 7, 2002 / Feature / Aram Roston
Law’s the Law in Boston Law’s the Law in Boston
Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law deserves the Watergate Award for Obfuscatory Declamation: He has characterized his nearly two decades of cover-up of felonies--namely, the rape and m...
Mar 7, 2002 / Margaret Spillane
Virtual Reality Virtual Reality
In my last column, I mentioned that most actual drug users are young white people, even though most of those "profiled" as drug users are people of color. Indeed, according to th...
Mar 7, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Justice, Not So Swift Justice, Not So Swift
On October 31 Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts pardoned five women who had been convicted and executed in the Salem witch trials in 1692. Well, better late than never--what's...
Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Fighting Pickering Fighting Pickering
Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson says it's like this: If judicial nominee Charles Pickering is confirmed by a Democratic Senate, the Bush Administration will have a green ...
Feb 28, 2002 / John Nichols
What’s God Got to Do With It? What’s God Got to Do With It?
God again!
Feb 26, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Evil: The Quadruple Axel Evil: The Quadruple Axel
The hoofprints of Lucifer are everywhere. And since this is America, eternally at war with the darker forces, the foremost Enemy Within is sex, no quarter given. Here are some bu...
Feb 21, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn