Law

Sunstein’s Law Sunstein’s Law

He criticizes the liberal Warren Court for breaking new constitutional ground on too many fronts too broadly, while also giving no quarter to the constitutional theories of conse...

Sep 23, 1999 / Books & the Arts / David Rudenstine

Our Prison Complex Our Prison Complex

This past winter both Edwin Meese and Gen. Barry McCaffrey expressed surprising misgivings about the current direction of the War on Drugs.

Sep 23, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Theodore Hamm

‘Finality’ or Justice? ‘Finality’ or Justice?

Remember the bizarre daycare center "ritual abuse" trials of the eighties--the McMartin case in Los Angeles, the Little Rascals case in Edenton, North Carolina, the Kelly Micha...

Sep 18, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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

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...

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Mike Gray

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

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

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

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

George Soros’s Long Strange Trip George Soros’s Long Strange Trip

Research assistance: David Levinson Wilk.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Russ Baker

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