California’s Knightmare California’s Knightmare
W hen the Vermont Supreme Court ruled December 20 that denying the statutory benefits and protections of marriage to same-sex couples was discriminatory, conservatives began frot...
Jan 27, 2000 / Doug Ireland
California’s Gulag on Trial California’s Gulag on Trial
Welcome to Corcoran State Prison, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles in the San Joaquin Valley; built at a cost of $271.9 million on what was once Tulare Lake, home of the Tachi ...
Nov 4, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Decolonizing the Mind Decolonizing the Mind
As Hawaii's first American century comes to an end, marking grim anniversaries of overthrow and forced annexation by the United States, a groundswell for Native Hawaiian sovereig...
Sep 16, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Pennybacker
Gloves Off in the Garden State Gloves Off in the Garden State
The newly regilded dome of Trenton's state capitol may be shimmering under the intense summer sun, but if New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman's entourage is sweating bulle...
Aug 5, 1999 / Feature / Doug Ireland
Bush’s Death Watch Bush’s Death Watch
In rather the same way as new movies are now "reviewed" in terms of their first weekend gross, new candidates have become subject to evaluation by the dimensions of their "war ch...
Aug 5, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
What Boddah You?: The Authenticity Debate What Boddah You?: The Authenticity Debate
If there's one thing everyone agrees on about Hawaii writer Lois-Ann Yamanaka, it's that she has a perfect ear for local pidgin dialects, which change cadence and idiom througho...
Feb 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Pennybacker
Inaugurals Inaugurals
Twenty-six years ago, when the world was young, Jerry Brown began his reign in Sacramento and, even though I wrote some rude things about him at the time, life was certainly ...
Jan 7, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Jesse ‘The Gov’ Ventura Jesse ‘The Gov’ Ventura
On January 4, 1999, Jesse Ventura will be sworn in as the new governor of Minnesota amid a media deluge not seen since the state hosted the Super Bowl.
Dec 17, 1998 / Feature / Micah L. Sifry