Law

This Canadian Life This Canadian Life

The reviewer's galley of Natasha, David Bezmozgis's short-story collection about a Russian émigré family in Toronto, begins with words not from the writer but the p...

Sep 30, 2004 / Books & the Arts / D.T. Max

Death on the Border Death on the Border

Now that a summerlong Homeland Security crackdown along the Arizona border is concluding, the results are in and they spell lethal failure.

Sep 30, 2004 / Marc Cooper

Be Our Guests Be Our Guests

Guest workers in the US are routinely punished for asserting their rights.

Sep 9, 2004 / Feature / David Bacon

Defying Convention Defying Convention

This article draws on reporting by Eyal Press, Esther Kaplan and Katha Pollitt.

Sep 2, 2004 / Liza Featherstone

The War on Dissent The War on Dissent

When New York City was announced as the site of the Republican National Convention back in January 2003, it seemed an odd choice of location.

Aug 26, 2004 / Nancy Chang

Latin America’s Longest War Latin America’s Longest War

In May, Jan Egeland, the United Nations Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs, called a news conference in New York to declare publicly what he had been warning people about fo...

Jul 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

The Supreme Court of the United States has had two historic encounters with George W. Bush.

Jul 15, 2004 / Jonathan Schell

Even a Tyrant Is Entitled to Due Process Even a Tyrant Is Entitled to Due Process

Hussein's trial is shaping up as just US theatrics.

Jul 6, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

On (Gay) Marriage, Divorce and Statistics On (Gay) Marriage, Divorce and Statistics

One of the things that drive me nuts is that people always say that one in two American marriages ends in divorce. This isn't exactly true.

Jul 5, 2004 / Nora Ephron

Out With Gerrymanders! Out With Gerrymanders!

This April, in the case of Vieth v. Jubelirer, the Supreme Court came close to burying any hope of curing one of the worst diseases in our ailing democracy--the partisan gerryman...

Jul 1, 2004 / Herman Schwartz

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