Law

No Vengeance, No Justice No Vengeance, No Justice

Now that Timothy McVeigh has been executed, I suppose we're all supposed to stop talking about it--to "enjoy closure," a bit like the election. But McVeigh's execution wa...

Jun 14, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

McVeigh: Done to Death McVeigh: Done to Death

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Jun 12, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro

‘Moral’ Execution ‘Moral’ Execution

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Jun 6, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro

The Left Taught Him How to Do It The Left Taught Him How to Do It

The leftists organizing in Vermont since the 1970s prepared the ground for James Jeffords's jump, and he never would have done it without them. In the 1970s and 1980s Democrats h...

May 31, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Russia–Scamming the System Russia–Scamming the System

Thefts from other countries pale in relation to the looting of Russia, with the indispensable assistance of the "Offshornaya Zona." The 1995 "loans for shares" scheme transferred ...

May 31, 2001 / Feature / Lucy Komisar

Abortion on Trial Abortion on Trial

When a renowned abortion doctor opened a clinic in Ocala, Florida, he was seen as a public pest. So local authorities used the courts to get rid of him.

May 31, 2001 / Feature / Hillary Frey and Miranda Kennedy

State Outsources Secret War State Outsources Secret War

Best known as a place where the Air Force shoots satellites into orbit, the Eastern Space and Missile Center--just south of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida's Brevard County--w...

May 23, 2001 / Feature / Jason Vest

Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban

Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-US terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush Administration will embrace you. All that matters is...

May 22, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer

No Rush to Judges No Rush to Judges

President Bush's first list of nominees to the US Circuit Courts of Appeal, unveiled on May 8, was deceptively conciliatory and seeded with hard-to-oppose minorities and women, st...

May 17, 2001 / The Editors

McVeigh’s Last Message McVeigh’s Last Message

There is probably no punishment more painful to Timothy McVeigh than the great joke just played by the cosmos. In his fantasy life McVeigh has fancied himself a sort of stoic samu...

May 17, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro

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