The Last Job Ashcroft Should Be Given Is AG The Last Job Ashcroft Should Be Given Is AG
That John Ashcroft is a right-wing, pro-gun religious fanatic who laments the civil rights gains of the past decades and believes that leaders of the pro-slavery Southern Confede...
Jan 16, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
You Can’t Be a Moderate and Pick Ashcroft for Justice You Can’t Be a Moderate and Pick Ashcroft for Justice
Senate Democrats must save George W. Bush from his scarier self. They must reject the appointment of John Ashcroft as attorney general, an appointment that gives the extreme ri...
Jan 9, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong A Far-Right Nominee Who’s All Wrong
How ironic that Ashcroft's supporters now ask that he be treated with kid gloves during his own nomination hearings.
Jan 2, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
California’s Gulag on Trial California’s Gulag on Trial
Welcome to Corcoran State Prison, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles in the San Joaquin Valley; built at a cost of $271.9 million on what was once Tulare Lake, home of the Tachi ...
Nov 4, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Life of a Black Man The Life of a Black Man
A stay of execution was issued October 26.
Oct 28, 1999 / Angela Y. Davis, June Jordan, and Alice Walker
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
Marijuana Made Easy Marijuana Made Easy
For more than half a century, the US government has maintained a hard line on marijuana, denying that the plant has any medical value at all.
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Cynthia Cotts
The Road to Reform The Road to Reform
Nearly everyone seems to agree that the war on drugs has been a disaster, but little progress in ending it has been made.
Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Carol A. Bergman