California’s Knightmare California’s Knightmare
W hen the Vermont Supreme Court ruled December 20 that denying the statutory benefits and protections of marriage to same-sex couples was discriminatory, conservatives began frot...
Jan 27, 2000 / Doug Ireland
Fresh Airwaves Fresh Airwaves
Media critics are more accustomed to pointing out problems than pointing to victories.
Jan 27, 2000 / Danny Schechter
Crazed Cops, ‘Fallen Heroes’ Crazed Cops, ‘Fallen Heroes’
Those endless wars on crime and drugs--a staple of 90 percent of America's politicians these last thirty years--have engendered not merely our 2 million prisoners but a vindictiv...
Jan 27, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Despite the Cloud Over His Presidency, Clinton Excelled Despite the Cloud Over His Presidency, Clinton Excelled
Although he endured great hardship, Bill Clinton comes out of the Oval Office smelling like roses.
Jan 23, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
‘The First Environmentalists’ ‘The First Environmentalists’
For thirty years, since the publication of Silent Spring and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the growth of the environmental movement has been fueled with sorrow for the decimatio...
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Pennybacker
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
Of Scientists and Spies Of Scientists and Spies
After thirty years spent building the Federation of American Scientists into one of the country's most valuable and venerable institutional voices for peace, democracy and real s...
Jan 13, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Gay Teens Fight Back Gay Teens Fight Back
Jared Nayfack was 11 years old and living in the heart of conservative Orange County, California, when he told his best friend from school that he was gay--"and my friend then ca...
Jan 13, 2000 / Feature / Doug Ireland
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
Home Discomforts Home Discomforts
Isn't it curious how often the policy disaster that is posited as the thing that will never happen takes place within minutes?
Jan 6, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt