Email Author Bruce Shapiro

2003 Stories by Bruce Shapiro

• The War on Due Process

  published July 10, 2003

  WASHINGTON — Representative William Delahunt leaned into his microphone and looked a stone-faced Attorney General John Ashcroft in the eye... More >>

• Alarm Addictions

  published May 15, 2003

  Illustration by Brian Stauffer It was November 6, just after last fall’s election, and John Walters was crowing. Three ballot initiative... More >>

• The Patronage Game

  published January 30, 2003

  The playbook of one of the 20th century‘s pre-eminent patronage hacks, George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, goes like this: “I seen ... More >>