Reforming Three Strikes Reforming Three Strikes
In November, California voters will have their first chance in a decade to reform the state's "three strikes and you're out" law, which has imposed cruel life sentences on th...
Oct 14, 2004 / Louis Freedberg
The Right Wing’s Drive for ‘Tort Reform’ The Right Wing’s Drive for ‘Tort Reform’
Thanks to damage caps and other measures, victims are often unable to sue.
Oct 7, 2004 / Feature / Dan Zegart
Bush’s Court Picks: Be Afraid. Very Afraid. Bush’s Court Picks: Be Afraid. Very Afraid.
Democrats haven't made much of what would happen to the courts should Bush win a second term.
Oct 7, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Forgotten Issue The Forgotten Issue
In The Nation's October 9, 2000, special report on the Supreme Court, Tom Wicker wrote, "No issue is more vital...repeat, no issue is more important than the makeup of the next S...
Oct 7, 2004 / The Editors
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