REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. (1994 - 1998)

"Bankrupt Policy," The New Republic, May 18, 1998 (piece on the bankruptcy bill —vetoed by Clinton not long after this piece, later passed by Congress & signed by Bush)

"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," The Washington Post, May 10, 1998 (a review of For Your Own Good by Jacob Sullum and two other books on tobacco)

"Beyond Monsters, Addicts and Subhumans: An interview with Bill and Judith Moyers," Salon, March 30, 1998

"Drug Abuse: A Social Profile," The Economist, March 28, 1998

"Do 'Megan's laws' make a difference?," U.S. News & World Report, March 9, 1998

"A new emphasis on learning by doing," U.S. News & World Report, March 2, 1998.
"Right-Wing-Conspiracy Facts and Fiction," U.S. News & World Report, February 9, 1998 (on Hillary Clinton's contention on the Today Show that the Monica scandal was due to a "vast right-wing conspiracy")

"California Puts an End to the Smoke-Filled Bar," U.S. News & World Report, December 22. ("These are not health clubs. The whole point of bars is that you go there to ingest toxins."

"Hooked on Dogma: U.S. Drug Warriors Ignore Switzerland's Success With Heroin Addicts," The Washington Post, December 21, 1997

Poisoned Ivy; for Some Students, Getting into Harvard is the Easy Part," The Washington Monthly, December 1997, (a review of Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder by Melanie Thernstrom)

"Washington's Counter-Devolutionaries," U.S. News & World Report, November 24, 1997

"Lighting up controversy," U.S. News & World Report, November 17, 1997 (on Murphy Brown smoking pot)

"The New Anti-Ad," U.S. News & World Report, October 20, 1997

"The Fame Game," U.S. News & World Report, October 6, 1997

"Two Plus Two Equals Lower Tuition Costs," U.S. News & World Report, September 8, 1997. (Ugh. This piece is so boring. Written for U.S. News' college guide.)

"Grappling with Diversity," U.S. News & World Report, September 1, 1997. (Slightly less boring piece—still, don't read!)

"Beats," U.S. News & World Report, August 18-25, 1997. (My obituary of William S. Burroughs)

"Is legalized gambling becoming unsinkable?," U.S. News & World Report, August 4, 1997

"What Do We Know and Why Do We Know It?," U.S. News & World Report, June 23, 1997

"Even the Fat Cats are Squealing," U.S. News & World Report, June 16, 1997

"In Debt All the Way Up to Their Nose Rings," U.S. News & World Report, June 9, 1997

"Burning in Celebrity's Spotlight & the Bush's Best Friend," U.S. News & World Report, June 2, 1997

"The Wee Reform," (with Nicholas Lemann), U.S. News & World Report, May 19, 1997

"Drug Corruption: As American as Capone," USA Today, May 12, 1997 (Drug czar Barry McCaffrey wrote a letter to the editor objecting to this piece)

"Testing, testing—1, 2, 3," U.S. News & World Report, April 21, 1997

"True Colors," U.S. News & World Report, March 24, 1997

"Listless reformers missing their moment," U.S. News & World Report, March 24, 1997

"Surgery, Done to a Country Melody," U.S. News & World Report, March 24, 1997. (A piece on ClintonÕs surgeryÑfrom my Air Force One days)

"How Al Gore's Efforts to Fix the INS May Have Backfired and Made Matters Worse," U.S. News & World Report, March 17, 1997

"Lost in the shuffle," U.S. News & World Report, March 17, 1997 (a super-short piece on Patty Griffin)

"Traveling with the President," U.S. News & World Report, March 3, 1997

"A Small Advance for Clean Needles," U.S. News & World Report, March 3, 1997

"The Ghost of Tom Joad," The Washington Monthly, January 1997 (a political reporter's love note to Bruce Springsteen)

"Designed for Impotence," U.S. News & World Report, January 20, 1997

"Jury's In: Needle Exchanges Slow the Spread of AIDS," U.S. News & World Report, December 30, 1996-January 6, 1997

"Baring Teeth In the Drug War," The New York Times, October 30, 1996

"Republicans' Dopey Drug Charges Dishonest," USA Today, September 25, 1996

"The Phony Drug War," The Nation, September 23, 1996

"Progressives All," The Economist, November 9, 1996

"The Longest Shadow of All," The Economist, October 26, 1996

"Wake Me When It's Over," The Economist, October 19, 1996

"Kerrey's Crusade," The Economist, October 12, 1996

"Obituary: Tupak Shakur," The Economist, September 21, 1996

"Sit Up Pay Attention," The Economist, September 7, 1996

"What Youth Politics?" Who Cares, Fall 1996

"Inhaling, and Worse," The Economist, August 24, 1996

"The Morning After High Noon," The Economist, Aug. 10, 1996

"The American Way of Death," The Economist, July 27, 1996

"A Habit too Hard to Break," The Economist, July 6, 1996

"All Woodward's Men," The Economist, June 29/July5, 1996

"Drawing on Idealism," The Washington Monthly, July/Aug. 1996

"The Best and Worst of Bob Dole," The Washington Monthly, July/Aug. 1996

"Star Struck," The Washington Monthly, June 1996

"The Public Schools' Last Hurrah?" The Washington Monthly, March 1996

"Warning: Cutting the FDA Could Be Hazardous to Your Health," The Washington Monthly, January-February 1996

"Steve Forbes, Joe Camel, and the ACLU," The Washington Monthly, April 1996

"An Endangered Species," The Washington Monthly, December 1995

"Political Booknotes," Review of The Luck Business: The Devastating Consequesnces and Broken Promises of America's Gambling Explosion, The Washington Monthly, November 1995

"Can You Still Hate Drugs and Still Want to Legalize Them," The Washington Monthly, October 1995

"Just Saying 'No' to the Sick and Suffering," The Washington Monthly, October 1995

"Regulatory Reform: The Case for Common Sense," an interview with Phillip K. Howard, Washington Monthly, September 1995

"Everyone's a Loser," The Washington Monthly, July/Aug. 1995

"The Robber Barons of the Information Highway," The Washington Monthly, June 1995

"The Perils of Privatization," The Washington Monthly, May 1995

"The Case for (Some) Regulation," The Washington Monthly, March 1995

"Hidden Kingdom: Disney's Political Blueprint," The American Prospect. March 21, 1995

"Limbaugh's Lies II," The New Republic, August 8, 1994