Stephen Pomper has worked as a transactional lawyer for Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton and as a freelance journalist for Time and Newsweek. Washington Monthly articles by Stephen Pomper: July/August 2000:Starr Lite Review of "Truth At Any Cost" by Susan Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf June 2000:Reasonable Doubts Crime's down but the system's broken. The Monthly's guide to criminal justice reform. May 2000:Drug Rush Why the prescription drug market is unsafe at high speeds April 2000 Avoiding the Triangulation Trap How to save liberalism without abandoning it. January/February 2000: Presidential Aptitude Test : What you really need to know to pick a president December 1999: The Gipper's Constitution Republican judges are rewriting the law of the land.