y God, exclaimed President George H. W. Bush a week after the Gulf War ended, weve kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all. It wasnt hard to miss the subtext: this victory has restored our faith in weaponry as the wisest political tool. Yet as we retool and replenish for further world policing, its […]
Katherine Boo
Posted inMarch 1991
Beyond Beauty Schools
There are lots of things the government should train the poor to do. Sculpting nails isn’t one of them.
Posted inMagazine, September 1990
The Worst City Government
In the Baltimore City Jail, getting sick can be a death sentence.
