ARTICLES 

(lighter pieces below)

New!  "Stand Up to Cancer?" Stand Up to Congress and the White House (Aug. 2008)

New!  Pancreatic Cancer: My Mother's Death (Aug. 2008) Read the piece a Washington Post editor called "smart and moving."

Of Missionaries, Zionists and Barbary Pirates -- I review Michael Oren's history of America's involvement in the Mideast, Legal Times (Feb. 26, 2007)

 Don't waste your charity on rich colleges, Los Angeles Times (Nov. 25, 2006)

Oprah and Auschwitz, Baltimore Sun (Feb. 26, 2006)

Why cameras don't belong in the jury room.  Washington Post (Dec. 22, 2002)

Remember the D.C. Snipers? The Case for Ballistic Fingerprinting (2002)

Regulating the Ferrari Set - on a Ford Salary, Washington Post (Jan. 4, 2000)

Read the article on pro-Palestinian media bias that infuriated a Washington Post editor (2002) (note: it's long)

Slackers, Stigma and Depression, Mental Health Net (1997)

Boyz 'N the Neck -about the racial crisis in my home town, American Lawyer (March 1996)

I review Defending Pornography by the ACLU's Nadine Strossen, Legal Times (Aug. 1995)

Does Free Speech Exist? - I review Stanley Fish, Legal Times (Apr. 1994)

Does the Jury System Need Repair? Legal Times (Jan. 1995)

Polish-Jewish Reconciliation: A Long Way to Go, originally published in The Forward (Dec. 1996) (scroll halfway down linked page)

 LIGHTER PIECES

We'll Blow Them Out of the Water! The 2012 Olympics, Washington Post, (Jan. 2002)

Being Dave Eggers

Tanless (Fall 2002)

House-hunting Hell

TV hits you'll soon be talking about (with Gregory Baruch, 2002)

Look Good in Tux, Ready to Run the NEA, Wall Street Journal (April 1989)

Superlawyers storm the Continent! Baltimore Sun (Apr. 1992)

Regulating Wall Street Billionaires - Hear me on Public Radio's "Marketplace"

The Lullaby of Washington - Hail to the Redskins? Washington Post (Jan. 1991)

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