Law

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

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

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