Privacy Degree Zero Privacy Degree Zero
For all its defenders, privacy remains hard to understand.
Mar 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Paul Duguid
Watchdogging Investigation of New Orleans Killings Watchdogging Investigation of New Orleans Killings
Two former police members recently admitted to participating in a cover-up of the killings and wounding of unarmed civilians in New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina. Nation ...
Mar 17, 2010 / Democracy Now!
Lawyers, Terror & Torture Lawyers, Terror & Torture
Liz Cheney's witch hunt against lawyers who represented Guantánamo detainees is a new low.
Mar 11, 2010 / David Cole
Justice at Last? Justice at Last?
Justice may finally be imaginable for Edna Glover and her family. The charred remains of her son Henry were discovered in the burnt hulk of a car on a levee overlooking the Mississ...
Feb 13, 2010 / Esther Kaplan
Make CEOs Take Responsibility for Democracy-Warping Ads Make CEOs Take Responsibility for Democracy-Warping Ads
As someone who has written several books and dozens of major articles on judicial interventions in our politics, and who has covered literally hundreds of campaigns in every state ...
Feb 11, 2010 / John Nichols
Ron Unz, Latinos, Liberals, and Scholarship Ron Unz, Latinos, Liberals, and Scholarship
I was not surprised by "HisPANIC: the Myth of Immigrant Crime," Ron Unz's article in The American Conservative showing that Latinos in the US have a crime rate no higher...
Feb 11, 2010 / Katha Pollitt
The Bogus Crime Wave The Bogus Crime Wave
A host of politicians and pundits would have you believe that Hispanic immigrants are to blame for an uptick in urban crime. They're wrong.
Feb 4, 2010 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Scalia v. The World: On Antonin Scalia Scalia v. The World: On Antonin Scalia
Who is the purest archetype of the conservative legal movement, Antonin Scalia or John Roberts?
Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell
Free Speech for People Free Speech for People
My colleague and friend John Nichols' new post appropriately lauds Rep. Donna Edwards' proposed legislation to redress the damage done by the Supreme Court in its decision in the ...
Feb 2, 2010 / Peter Rothberg
Donna Edwards’ No Corporate Monopoly of Elections Amendment Donna Edwards’ No Corporate Monopoly of Elections Amendment
Maryland Congresswoman Donna Edwards turned to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis for guidance in framing the Constitutional amendment she proposed Tuesday as the right and neces...
Feb 2, 2010 / John Nichols