In a small office at the Arizona State Hospital, attorney Chick Arnold faces his client, Michael, a paranoid schizophrenic who has spent most of the past seven years at the hospital because he stabbed his grandfather to death. Michael has escaped from the hospital twice, but has come back of…

It’s said that Sam Coppersmith surprised even himself the night he snatched Arizona’s First Congressional District from an incumbent Republican who seemed much better suited to the conservative East Valley district. It was called the upset of 1992, a race so close that Coppersmith, a pro-choice Democrat making his first…

Dan Quayle, move over. Jeff Cohen wants to talk about the real “media elite”–big business, whose scions, he says, are engaged more in cover-ups than in coverage. Cohen, executive director and founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a New York-based media-watch organization created in 1986, will speak Tuesday…

Each July, in an ancient derivation of the traditional Native American rain dance, the Tohono O’odham people drink gallons of wine made from the fruit of the saguaro cactus. They chug with a purpose: to vomit the wine back onto the earth in an act of personal cleansing and a…