Throwing the book at people is nothing new, but in our post 9/11
world, the screws are tightening. Take San Francisco, whose district
attorney, Terence "Kayo" Hallinan, has the reputation of being an unusually
progressive...
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23 January 2002
Everywhere we look, it's Enron, in the biggest tumult over
corporate criminality since the looting of the S&Ls in the 1980s. Enron will
be on the menu for months, if not years. Congress launches into at least
eight separate...
20 January 2002
The disjuncture these days between reality and what one reads in
the press here is pretty much absolute. The other day I opened up the San
Francisco Chronicle and found a piece hailing what the writer described as
something most...
18 January 2002
Delegates from all parts of the U.S. gathered in Washington DC June 15-18 to attend the Education for Peace in Iraq Center’s (EPIC) Iraq Forum and to lobby members of congress to lift economic sanctions and oppose prominent hardliners...
16 January 2002
Several years ago, while I was a student
at Columbia University’s School of In-
ternational and Public Affairs, one of the hottest topics of debate was an article Harvard’s Samuel Huntington wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine titled “The...
16 January 2002
How many people do you know who claim to be skeptical,
who pride themselves on their distrust for authority, who
like to pretend that they’re wise to the ways of the world — and then, every time there’s a war, they swallow the lies of...
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