Cocaine

The making of Glenn Beck The making of Glenn Beck

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By Alexander Zaitchik Sep 21, 2009

  • Snorting speed off of toaster ovens

    The Department of Interior ethics scandal is where offshore drilling meets the U.S. government. Talk about your wild parties!
    By Andrew Leonard September 11, 2008

  • Stillbirth is not necessarily murder

    A homicide conviction is overturned in South Carolina.
    By Lynn Harris May 14, 2008

  • Criminals of the world, unite and take over

    In "McMafia," author Misha Glenny takes us on a startling tour of the new international underworld, documenting the hidden costs of an unregulated global free market.
    By Laura Miller April 16, 2008

  • I'm working for a cokehead at a free arts magazine

    She promised a raise and didn't deliver, and acts like I should be grateful!
    By Cary Tennis September 27, 2007

  • My girlfriend tried cocaine at a party! She was drunk! Oh my God!

    I really, really, really hate drug use. I just can't get over how she could experiment with cocaine.
    By Cary Tennis August 27, 2007

  • Get your cheap cocaine at the globalization candy store

    The efficiencies delivered by global markets aren't limited to cheap TVs and blue jeans. Heroin and coke are also priced to move.
    By Andrew Leonard June 21, 2007

  • No sympathy for the devil

    Disney says sayonara to Keith Richards as the fallout from snortgate continues.
    April 6, 2007

  • "The first time I was back since the storm ... drugs were everywhere"

    With much of New Orleans still uninhabitable, drug dealers are deluging neighborhoods. Violent crime is surging -- and so is anxiety about the city's recovery.
    By Bill Sasser March 6, 2007

  • You only hurt the ones you love

    A Fox News anchor gives props to the president for admitting cocaine use.
    By Tim Grieve January 3, 2007

  • Mike Tyson's latest court appearance

    Released without bail.
    By David Puner January 2, 2007

  • The needle and the damage undone

    Vancouver has halted a drug epidemic by helping street addicts shoot up in safety. Will U.S. cities -- and Bush's drug czar -- learn from the Canadians' success?
    By Mark Follman September 22, 2006

  • Cocaine and free trade

    The war on drugs, trade policy and Latin America's "turn to the left."
    By Andrew Leonard June 22, 2006

  • New Mexico boxer fights hometown despair

    Fast-punching, motorcycle-riding, role-modeling Michelle Lovato is Broadsheet's girl crush of the day.
    By Lynn Harris January 18, 2006

  • The rise and fall of Kate Moss

    The skeletal model's coke-fueled plunge from grace has exposed some ugly truths about the fashion industry -- not least its world-class hypocrisy.
    By Rebecca Traister September 23, 2005

  • How John Kerry exposed the Contra-cocaine scandal

    Derided by the mainstream press and taking on Reagan at the height of his popularity, the freshman senator battled to reveal one of America's ugliest foreign policy secrets.
    By Robert Parry October 25, 2004

  • Don't mess with the Bushes

    In her new book, Kitty Kelley shows how the first family intimidates those who've tried to expose the clan's dark secrets of drugs, drinking, womanizing and nepotism. Now, she tells Salon, they're coming after her.
    By David Talbot September 14, 2004

  • Letters

    Readers respond to "Canada's Safe Haven for Junkies" by Mark Follman, and "Black Copters Over Oregon" by Bill Donahue.
    September 11, 2003

  • Canada's safe haven for junkies

    Vancouver hopes to save hundreds of lives by opening street clinics where heroin addicts can shoot up safely. But the White House is accusing Canada of going AWOL from its war on drugs.
    By Mark Follman September 8, 2003

  • Colombia's growing nightmare

    Guerrilla commander Fabian Ramirez's kidnapping of a prominent Colombian senator seems motivated more by passion than politics. And it has set off a new round in the country's long, bloody narco-war.
    By Ana Arana February 23, 2002

  • Good morning, Colombia

    Turning loose a force of heavily armed mercenaries in the middle of a bloody civil war in the name of America's war on drugs is more than a misguided policy -- it's utter insanity.
    By Arianna Huffington July 16, 2001
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