The Drug War Goes Up in Smoke The Drug War Goes Up in Smoke
A budget crisis and a prison boom make the states a vanguard for drug reform.
Jul 31, 2003 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Lost Innocents Lost Innocents
Every day, DNA testing overturns another man's rape or murder conviction.
Jun 26, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Buyer Beware Buyer Beware
Speaking at a conference this winter on Internet crime, eBay.com's director of law enforcement and compliance, Joseph Sullivan, offered law-enforcement officials extensive access...
Jun 20, 2003 / Feature / Jonah Engle
The Public Is the Enemy The Public Is the Enemy
On March 22, a few hundred peaceful antiwar protesters in Seattle who had gathered around the Federal Building suddenly found themselves being swept down streets by officers in...
Apr 24, 2003 / Editorial / Silja J.A. Talvi
Driving While Immigrant Driving While Immigrant
Emboldened by the "success" of its preventive war in Iraq, the Bush Administration appears to be expanding its preventive law-enforcement strategy at home.
Apr 24, 2003 / Editorial / David Cole
Concerning Pee-Wee, Townshend and Ritter Concerning Pee-Wee, Townshend and Ritter
The worse the state treats kids, the more the state's prosecutors chase after inoffensive "perverts" in the private sector who have committed the so-called crime of getting sex...
Jan 30, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Reasons for Doubt Reasons for Doubt
When I was in college, I joined a court-watching project in Roxbury, Massachusetts. We observed criminal trials, then interviewed judges, lawyers and witnesses.
Dec 12, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Legal Victory for Airport Screeners Legal Victory for Airport Screeners
A federal judge hands nine workers an unexpected victory in their battle against a law requiring citizenship for all airport screeners.
Dec 3, 2002 / Feature / Michael Flaherty
Home on the Range Home on the Range
There's a joke circulating on the Internet: A grandmother overhears her 5-year-old granddaughter playing "wedding." The wedding vows go like this: "You have the right to remain...
Oct 17, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Cops Are Watching You The Cops Are Watching You
September 11 is being used as a reason to build up police intelligence units.
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss