Does Europe Do It Better? Does Europe Do It Better?
Listen to a debate among drug policy advocates and you're likely to hear impassioned claims about the brilliant success (or dismal failure) of more "liberal" approaches in certai...
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter
An Old City Seeks a New Model An Old City Seeks a New Model
In early December 1984, an undercover police officer named Marcellus Ward met with a pair of heroin dealers above a candy store in southwest Baltimore.
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Joshua Wolf Shenk
Harnessing the Rising Sun Harnessing the Rising Sun
Americans aren't much for history these days. History is for Europeans--for Germans, with their thickets of theory, and the French, who are forever going on about their revolutio...
Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
Kilroy Was There Kilroy Was There
In the summer of 1941, Adolf Hitler's apparently invincible Wehrmacht was grinding hundreds of miles into the Soviet Union, spreading mayhem all the way.
Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Tom Wicker
ER to HRC–Come in, Dear! ER to HRC–Come in, Dear!
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Sep 2, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Elsa Dixler
Response Response
I’m encouraged to see how much common ground there is between my colleagues and me. But some key differences remain. Peter Kornbluh contends that the distorting effect of all those…
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Michael Massing
Yes, Treatment, But… Yes, Treatment, But…
Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh andMike Gray--and Massing's concluding thoughts.
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Elliott Currie
Perils of Prohibition Perils of Prohibition
Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding though...
Life of a Scandal Life of a Scandal
In mid-October 1996, two months after the publication of Gary Webb's series "Dark Alliance" in the San Jose Mercury News, an extraordinary town meeting took place in Compton, Cal...
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh
It’s Time for Realism It’s Time for Realism
Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: reponses by Peter Kornbluh, Mike Gray and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding thoughts.
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Michael Massing