Law

Who Speaks for Human Rights? Who Speaks for Human Rights?

A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.

Mar 18, 2010 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan and Maria Margaronis

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

Could Immigration Split the Tea Party?

Could Immigration Split the Tea Party? Could Immigration Split the Tea Party?

Guest-hosting the Rachel Maddow Show, Chris Hayes asks, will the Tea Party movement rethink their politics as anti-immigrant activists attempt to join the party?

Mar 10, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show

Why Democrats should pick a fight on immigration Why Democrats should pick a fight on immigration

 Economics and morality set aside, the politics are good, too.

Mar 9, 2010 / Kai Wright

The Breakdown: Will Torture Memo Authors Evade Justice? The Breakdown: Will Torture Memo Authors Evade Justice?

In 2002, the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, at the behest of the CIA and in conjunction with the White House, drafted a memo on acceptable standards of interrogat...

Feb 26, 2010 / Chris Hayes

Broken ICE Broken ICE

Inside ICE's secret detention facility on Varick Street in Manhattan.

Feb 25, 2010 / Jacqueline Stevens

Convergences Convergences

The cost of failing to see our common fate.

Feb 25, 2010 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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

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