Society

Death, Juries and Scalia Death, Juries and Scalia

Amid all the recent assaults on the Bill of Rights, including the latest trashing in the USA Patriot Act and the denial of habeas corpus to citizens, amid all this, in the span...

Jun 27, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Corporate Human Rights Corporate Human Rights

With the Bush Administration too often feeling the pain of its corporate sponsors, and with the Enron scandal (so far) producing little political fallout or legislative change on ...

Jun 27, 2002 / David Corn

Too Much Monkey Business Too Much Monkey Business

I received the news of paleontologist and popular science writer Stephen Jay Gould's death, at age 60, in the week I was reading Jonathan Marks's new book on genetics, human evolu...

Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Micaela di Leonardo

Vitamin Giants: The Sequel Vitamin Giants: The Sequel

Price-fixing fines behind them, the firms are close to achieving a monopoly.

Jun 20, 2002 / Feature / Jock Ferguson

Framed by the FBI Framed by the FBI

The $4.4 million damages award in June against FBI agents and Oakland police for violating the constitutional rights of environmental activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari, wrong...

Jun 20, 2002 / James X. Dempsey

A Second Gilded Age A Second Gilded Age

Would it be too early to sense a sudden, uncovenanted shift against the corporate ethic, if ethic is the word? I can barely turn the page of a newspaper or magazine without strikin...

Jun 20, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Ashcroft [heart] Iran Ashcroft [heart] Iran

What would the world look like if women had full human rights? If girls went to school and young women went to college in places where now they are used as household drudges an...

Jun 20, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Jewish Media Stranglehold? Jewish Media Stranglehold?

Nixon thought so; Otis Chandler doesn't. Maybe it depends on where you stand.

Jun 20, 2002 / Feature / Cliff Rothman

In Martha Stewart’s Kitchen In Martha Stewart’s Kitchen

The camera pans across the room To see what she has made: An omelette or a spring bouquet Or just an inside trade.

Jun 20, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Flicking Fallen Angels Off the Head of a Pin Flicking Fallen Angels Off the Head of a Pin

Never did I expect to feel sorrow and pity for the Catholic Church, yet I confess that I do.

Jun 19, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

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