Part 1 of Essay
Stuart Taylor’s recent article entitled “Why the Story Matters,” published in Newsweek Magazine on August 30, 1999, makes an attempt to support tabloid journalism in the name of good democratic process. His premise that candidate George W. Bush practices hypocrisy in his refusal to disclose his self described, “young and ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... any drug use in Bush’s past. He uses James Madison’s writing in the Federalist Papers to support his position, specifically, “one of the Constitution’s safeguards against oppressive measures is that Congress can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of society.” He reasons, therefore, that Bush’s possible confession that he used cocaine when he was young should force him, his supporters and the rest of us to do some hard thinking. What M ....