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Republicans are pushing the most radical assault on the environment in modern times. But history warns of catastrophe for leaders who trust ideology over science.
By Glenn Scherer
January 6, 2003
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Author Charles Bullock, an expert in the politics of the South, says the GOP will dust itself off and get along fine in Dixie.
By Eric Boehlert
December 21, 2002
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This week's closed-door ruling by a secretive court will give the feds unprecedented domestic spying powers, a constitutional expert says.
By Eric Boehlert
November 20, 2002
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Terrified that an increasingly pot-tolerant America will spell the end of their moral crusade, the president's anti-drug warriors are making a last stand over marijuana.
By Louise Witt
November 5, 2002
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The courts and even some of his allies have turned against John Ashcroft and his attack on civil rights -- and he has only his own bungling and overreaching to blame.
By Bruce Shapiro
September 11, 2002
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The senator's disenchantment with Operation TIPS could doom the controversial citizen-snoops' hot line.
By Dave Lindorff
September 6, 2002
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Blasted for plans to link the spy program to "America's Most Wanted," John Ashcroft has tapped another private firm to run its volunteer hotline. His most fervent supporter: Joe Lieberman.
By Dave Lindorff
August 30, 2002
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Volunteers for Operation TIPS, John Ashcroft's citizen spy army, are being steered to the Fox crime show "America's Most Wanted." Is the merger of tabloid TV with the federal snooping operation funny or scary or both?
By Dave Lindorff
August 6, 2002
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The Justice Department insists Lynne Stewart helped the man behind the 1993 WTC bombing. Her defenders say she's a victim of John Ashcroft's jihad against attorney-client privilege.
By Dave Lindorff
August 2, 2002
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An interview with S/M photographer Barbara Nitke about her lawsuit against the attorney general, her art, and the thousand-yard stare.
By David Bowman
July 22, 2002
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Why do the John Ashcrofts burn with hatred for John Walker Lindh? He's their renegade son whose every thought and action stands as an unforgivable personal rebuke.
By Eric Weinberger
July 17, 2002
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After months of bold posturing and fierce infighting, both sides in the case of American Taliban John Walker Lindh decided to cut their risks.
By Dave Lindorff
July 16, 2002
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Worldwide, 169 countries have signed a treaty to ban forced marriage and mandate equal access to education for women. Now Christian-right allies of President Bush call it a threat to Mother's Day.
By Michelle Goldberg
June 22, 2002
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In the aftermath of Sept. 11, law enforcement agents detained more than 1,000 people, mostly Middle Eastern-born men. Some were held for weeks without an attorney. Some were virtually convicted in the press. But none have been implicated in terrorism.
By Eric Boehlert
June 19, 2002
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The Bush administration rivals the Nixon White House when it comes to secrecy and unchecked power, with John Ashcroft as our modern-day John Mitchell.
By Bruce Shapiro
June 17, 2002
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Instead of tailing "dirty bomb" suspect Abdullah al Muhajir and following him to other suspects, the federal government arrested him, but then waited a month to announce the bust. Now critics wonder what the Justice Department is really up to.
By Dave Lindorff
June 12, 2002
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John Ashcroft may want to try the "dirty bomb" suspect in a secret military court where his rights would be limited -- even though he's a U.S. citizen.
By Dave Lindorff
June 11, 2002
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With nobody willing to speak up as our civil liberties erode, who will protect us from the new agency dedicated to spying on Americans?
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
June 4, 2002
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The official responsible for the most dramatic failures of Sept. 11 turns out to be the attorney general. His sweeping anti-terror measures in recent months were a fig leaf to cover naked incompetence.
By Bruce Shapiro
May 23, 2002
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By Greil Marcus
April 22, 2002
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Democrats want to make the homeland security czar talk to Congress. But after six months of losing turf wars to John Ashcroft, does the marginalized Ridge have anything to say?
By Joshua Micah Marshall
March 26, 2002
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Once again, the attorney general's deeply held religious beliefs interfere with his job as defender of the Constitution.
By Robert Scheer
February 27, 2002
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Missouri is determined to execute Joseph Amrine for murder even though every prosecution witness and the jury foreman now say he's innocent and new witnesses point to another man. Why? A federal law says the evidence came in too late.
By Dave Lindorff
February 20, 2002
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This just in: President Bush dishes out overblown al-Qaida threats -- and the press laps them up.
By Eric Boehlert
February 11, 2002
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The Vermont senator talks about terrorism, his "strained relationship" with Attorney General John Ashcroft and the beauty of the First Amendment.
By Jake Tapper
December 21, 2001
George Bush's war on nature
Big Brother's big win
Bush's reefer madness
Miss Liberty strikes back
Lieberman dropping support for domestic terror-tips program
New life for Operation TIPS
When neighbors attack!
Defense lawyer or terrorist's accomplice?
Ashcroft in bondage
Rotten kid
A legal war without victory
The dragnet comes up empty
Restoring the imperial presidency
A military tribunal for al Muhajir?
Does Tom Ridge matter?
Too late to stop the hangman?
His master's voice
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