Law

In Business We Trust In Business We Trust

The Supreme Court once championed antitrust laws as valued tools to limit corporate power and to promote the autonomy, diversity and economic rights of people and firms without pow...

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Eleanor Fox

No Love Lost for Labor No Love Lost for Labor

Right now, what hurts labor, day to day, is the wins and losses in the lower courts.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Thomas Geoghegan

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

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

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 / Herman Schwartz

Death Penalty Politics Death Penalty Politics

The seismic shift in the politics of the death penalty is staggering.

Jul 13, 2000 / Mike Farrell

Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook Killing Him Lets Us Off the Hook

It's difficult to get over the idea that we failed Timothy McVeigh and that his execution fails us all. How deceptive a finale it is that leaves history neatly packaged in the ce...

Jun 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Reno: Getting It From All Sides Reno: Getting It From All Sides

A week after she ordered federal agents to seize Elián González from his relatives in Miami, Republican critics were snarling, the Miami Cuban community was venti...

Jun 8, 2000 / Feature / Lars-Erik Nelson

Dad Slinks Off Into Silence on Alcohol Dad Slinks Off Into Silence on Alcohol

What if First Daughters Jenna and Barbara Bush had been caught lighting up a joint? Would the respectable media play down that story the way they have the Bush children's illegal...

Jun 5, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Moms to NRA: Grow Up! Moms to NRA: Grow Up!

In the end, after months of waffling, I violated my principles and went to the Million Mom March for gun control--make that "common-sense gun control." I've never liked maternali...

May 25, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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