Now, it's the turn of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman to be flattered by the same
moist-eyed press corps that's been hailing the stultifying Republican
convention in Philadelphia as a masterpiece of political stagecraft. Gore is
being...
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02 August 2000
It's "Reach Out" time. It happens every four years. Someone gets up in
front of the Republicans and reminds the white people filling 95 percent of
the convention hall that the party has to reach out. Who better than Colin
Powell? He told...
01 August 2000
There are today over two million Americans incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails throughout the United States. More than one-half, or one million, are black men and women. The devastating human costs of...
01 August 2000
What are the economic costs for American society of the vast expansion of our prison-industrial complex? According to criminal justice researcher David Barlow at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, between 1980 and 2000, the combined...
29 July 2000
If you’re trying to make sense out of recent Dispatch reporting on racial profiling by the Columbus Police Department (CPD), forget it. The Dispatch coverage suggests that since 28% of the traffic tickets issued in 1999 were...
29 July 2000
Two recent controversies at the Ohio State University, the flagship educational institution in the Buckeye State mostly known for its football prowess, underscore that institution’s shift from its original liberal arts land grant mission...
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