-
After Newsweek pulls a story about Gore's pot-smoking past, a former friend speaks out.
By Jake Tapper
January 22, 2000
-
Defenders of the White House-network drug-ad deal lost the battle of spin.
By Sean Elder
January 21, 2000
-
These pernicious moments brought to you by your elected leaders. PLUS: Sisterhood pyramid schemes, supermarket warfare and a man and his hooptie.
By Jenn Shreve
January 21, 2000
-
White House and anti-drug TV -- Big Brother manipulation or good use of government? Plus:
Who's afraid of mutated foods?; Camille Paglia's moronic defense of loudmouth athletes
Letters to the editor
January 20, 2000
-
Clinton and allies promote its benefits, while the drug czar gives it partial credit for reduction in teen drug use.
By Fiona Morgan
January 15, 2000
-
When the White House and the TV networks got together to put anti-drug messages in prime-time television, were they breaking the law?
By Daniel Forbes
January 14, 2000
-
Salon's six-month-long investigation into the religious conversion of Jane Fonda reveals it to be part of a CNN/government advertising swap.
By Gary Kamiya
January 14, 2000
-
How the White House secretly hooked network TV on its anti-drug message: A Salon special report.
By Daniel Forbes
January 13, 2000
-
How the government rewrote an episode of the WB's "Smart Guy."
By Daniel Forbes
January 13, 2000
-
A new book argues that all addictions are a matter of free will, even heroin and coffee.
By Andy Dehnart
January 10, 2000
-
President Clinton proposes the regulation of online drug sales.
By Damien Cave
January 6, 2000
-
Sickle cell patients are in the middle of a dilemma over the cost of effective drugs.
By Arthur Allen
December 15, 1999
-
Two new anti-flu drugs just hit the market and will be backed by millions in advertising. But do they work?
By Arthur Allen
November 22, 1999
-
Alternative Vote 2000 brings the counterculture to election coverage. Plus: High Times turns 25; what happens if Amazon tanks?
By Jenn Shreve
October 22, 1999
-
As J.H. Hatfield's credibility crumbles, St. Martin's Press stops distribution of his new book, which says the GOP front-runner was arrested on drug charges in 1972.
By Daryl Lindsey
October 21, 1999
-
Under attack, the author of a new George W. Bush bio lies low while its editor takes the hard questions -- and stands by the drug-arrest allegation.
By Craig Offman and Daryl Lindsey
October 20, 1999
-
When an attempt to get tough with a whistleblower backfired in 1994, the McCain spin machine went into overdrive, and the candidate's wife confessed to problems the media was already poised to reveal.
By Amy Silverman
October 18, 1999
-
When Baltimore, which is 65 percent black, chose a white as its next mayor, it marked a watershed event in the evolution of America's racial politics.
By Debra Dickerson
October 13, 1999
-
George W.'s Silicon Valley point man, Tim Draper, isn't quiet about legalizing marijuana.
By Mark Gimein
October 13, 1999
-
From opium-addicted housewives to cocaine cough syrup, the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum traces the history of illegal drugs in America.
By Ron Dicker
September 28, 1999
-
Bush is glib, none-too-smart and quick to anger, but reporters have yet to tell the truth about him.
By Jerry Politex
September 16, 1999
-
Is Paglia wrong about Waco? Plus: R.E.M. on "Automatic" pilot; Luddite gamers should quit moaning and start playing.
Letters to the Editor
September 15, 1999
-
Texas Gov. George W. Bush has presided over a crackdown on first-time drug offenders from poor neighborhoods like Houston's Third Ward Bottoms.
By Debra Dickerson
September 14, 1999
-
A Democratic judge rules Texas governor will not have to give a deposition in the so-called Formaldegate case.
By Robert Bryce
August 31, 1999
-
Bush's people are putting the Steve Forbes campaign on the defensive in the drug-use controversy.
By Susan Crabtree
August 25, 1999