Putting a Radical Right Team on the Bench Putting a Radical Right Team on the Bench
The future of the Supreme Court is the most important issue in the most important election year since 1932. Progressive Americans should treat it that way. The radical right does. ...
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Ralph G. Neas
First Amendment for the Rich? First Amendment for the Rich?
At stake is whether the twenty-first-century First Amendment will be a protector of the powerful or a resource for the weak and disfranchised.
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Burt Neuborne
Is the Wall Crumbling? Is the Wall Crumbling?
The current Supreme Court is so divided on fundamental questions of separation of church and state. that the appointment of one or two conservative Justices could well tip the bala...
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Norman Redlich
Earth in the Judicial Balance Earth in the Judicial Balance
To date, the Rehnquist Court's environmental record has been mixed. While no darling of the greens, neither has it been consistently "brown."
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / James Salzman
The Supreme Court Issue The Supreme Court Issue
The Rehnquist Court's paeans of praise for state government are belied by reality.
Sep 25, 2000 / Editorial / Herman Schwartz
‘The Big Discourse’ ‘The Big Discourse’
Unusually sensitive to the fast-changing character of liberal social structures, C. Wright Mills proved impervious to the bitter ironies of reform.
Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Summers
Up for Grabs Up for Grabs
No matter what the next President or Congress may do or think, among the three branches of the federal government, the Supreme Court is often first among supposed equals.
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Tom Wicker
Letters Letters
Our readers and Ellen Schrecker and Maurice Isserman on "The Right's Cold War Revision."
Sep 25, 2000 / Letters / Our Readers
Why Dubya Can’t Read Why Dubya Can’t Read
The poor guy is obviously dyslexic, and dyslexic to the point of near-illiteracy.
Sep 24, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens
Presidential Politics, Cont’d., Cont’d. Presidential Politics, Cont’d., Cont’d.
I still think third-party politics is mostly a crock, but then, so is two-party politics.
Sep 24, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt