War on Drugs

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  • Letters to the editor

    Are the cyberrich selfish? Plus: Should women's equality extend to the death penalty? Don't blame Republicans for cops' zealous raids.
    May 8, 2000

  • When cops become combat troops

    The controversial use of force to seize Elian Gonzalez is just business as usual in the war on drugs.
    By Bonnie Bucqueroux May 2, 2000

  • The war on drugs

    Prisons, profiling and propaganda: Salon's coverage of the U.S. government crackdown on illegal-substance abuse and the drug trade.
    May 2, 2000

  • White House blasts Salon

    Drug policy spokesman responds to Daniel Forbes' report on the government's anti-drug messages in American media, and Forbes replies.
    April 20, 2000

  • When the jailhouse is far from home

    Kids with parents behind bars share the pain of incarceration.
    By Nell Bernstein March 29, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Readers squawk over Conason's offer of crow Plus: Electronic music isn't dead; a new club for Bush watchers.
    March 16, 2000

  • Going Dutch

    Can America learn from the Netherlands' drug policy of tolerance and ambiguity?
    By David Downie March 13, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Vive Laetitia Casta, busty symbol of France! Plus: Oxygen sucks the intellectual air out of women's television; just say no to the war on drugs.
    Letters to the editor February 24, 2000

  • The elephant in the room

    Presidential candidates are silent on the failure of the U.S. war on drugs.
    By Michael Massing February 22, 2000

  • Colombia's powder keg

    Washington's ill-conceived policy could hurt human rights and fuel the drug trade.
    By Robert D. Lamb October 7, 1999

  • Louder than words

    George W. Bush, who refuses to answer questions about his own drug use, slashed drug rehabilitation programs for inmates while ushering in tougher sentencing laws.
    By Robert Bryce August 24, 1999

  • The malling of America

    Old Navy and Starbucks and Jamba Juice! Oh my! Plus: Feed looks at the latest trend in computer interfaces.
    By Jenn Shreve August 13, 1999

  • The best sheriff in America

    San Francisco's Michael Hennessey, the longest-serving sheriff in California, has brought art and acupuncture to his jails, thinks the war on drugs is a fiasco and likes listening to "loud, obnoxious music."
    By Jenn Shreve June 7, 1999

  • Fixin' under Nixon

    A new book examines Richard Nixon's progressive drug policies and the deevolution of the war on drugs.
    By Lori Leibovich May 11, 1999

  • Noble words, empty deeds

    The war on drugs will fail so long as the victims don't get help.
    By Lonny Shavelson June 15, 1998

  • Newsreal: Once more to the death squads

    The chief beneficiaries of America's latest "war on drugs" in Colombia will be drug-trafficking right-wing death squads.
    By Andrew Reding November 24, 1997

  • Media Circus

    By Halfway Through The Video, Even The Natural Allure Of Seeing Naked People Thrashing About Fades When You Hear Cunnilingus Reduced To Something Akin To The Operating Instructions Of A Jigsaw: "Continue Downward With The Tongue, Then Back Up, Circle The Clitoris And Begin The Cycle Again." And Then A Big Chiming Stroke On The Harp. (That'S It: Ice-Cream-Truck Music. These People July 10, 1997

  • Brave Blue world

    Design guru David Carson leaps into the adventure-lifestyle arena with Blue, the magazine for hipsters with abs (and eyes) of steel.
    By Michael Soller July 9, 1997

  • Media Circus

    Forget the military's sex scandals. The real scandal is, why are our armed forces so bloated in the first place?
    By David Futrelle July 4, 1997
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