State Judges for Sale State Judges for Sale
In the 39 states that elect appellate judges, politicization of the bench is growing.
Aug 15, 2002 / Feature / Michael Scherer
The Men From JINSA and CSP The Men From JINSA and CSP
They want not just a US invasion of Iraq but "total war" against Arab regimes.
Aug 15, 2002 / Feature / Jason Vest
Letters Letters
Aug 15, 2002 / Ian Urbina, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Max Holland, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
The Accidental Commoner The Accidental Commoner
Al Gore is a man of the people. At least, that's the case as we speak. The earth-toney Harvard elitist, Though gone, could return by next week.
Aug 15, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Sour Thoughts for Dog Days Sour Thoughts for Dog Days
Let's start with Cynthia McKinney. Don't you think that if Arab-American or African-American groups targeted an incumbent white, liberal, maybe Jewish, congressperson, and ship...
Aug 15, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
‘Murder by Public Policy’ ‘Murder by Public Policy’
I am writing this review in the midst of a Chicago heat wave, almost exactly seven years after the heat disaster that killed nearly 800 people in the city. The Chicago Tribune's m...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Micaela di Leonardo
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT: Sex, Hope and Rock and Roll. By Ellen Willis.
Aug 9, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Liza Featherstone
Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score? Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score?
In a column from 2002, Robert Scheer takes a look back at the Bush Administrations's real motivation to go to war.
Aug 6, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Secret Arrests Are an Odious Concept Secret Arrests Are an Odious Concept
Following the September 11 attacks, the federal government rounded up more than 1,000 people and detained them without revealing their identities.
Aug 5, 2002 / The Editors