Politics
You have to admire President Bush’s willingness to amend the Constitution over an issue of basic principles.
March 15, 2004
Re “Suffrage Suffers in the Land of Rights,” Commentary, March 15: I agree wholeheartedly with Jamin Raskin’s list of shortcomings in the American voting process, but how did he miss the elephant standing in the middle of the room?
March 19, 2004
World & Nation
Bravo!
July 22, 1989
Archives
Courting Disaster; The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law, Martin Garbus, Times Books: 336 pp., $25 Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. the American People, Jamin B. Raskin, Routledge: 290 pp., $27.50 Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy, Richard A. Posner, Harvard University Press: 398 pp., $35
May 25, 2003
Business
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights, Thom Hartmann, Rodale Press: 320 pp., $26.95
Aug. 24, 2003
Nothing could be more dangerous to our freedom as Americans than carving out exceptions to the Bill of Rights.
July 12, 1989
Books
Barbara Raskin, who wrote fast and funny novels about women in middle age and about the steamy political and social climate of Washington, died Friday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore of complications after surgery for a vascular disease.
July 25, 1999
California
Takoma Park, Md., recently passed a referendum which recommended that municipal voting powers be extended to residents who are not American citizens.
Dec. 21, 1991
This is a small town with a big idea.
Nov. 13, 1991
A federal judge Tuesday rejected a request by Ross Perot and another third-party candidate to block Sunday’s nationally televised presidential debate unless they are allowed to participate.
Oct. 2, 1996