Safety Last Safety Last
Pro-business judges who now dominate the Supreme Court undermine consumers' right to sue when they are injured by unsafe products.
Oct 16, 2008 / Feature / David C. Vladeck
The Supreme Court and the Election: What’s at Stake The Supreme Court and the Election: What’s at Stake
The next president and Congress must reverse the conservative tide of the Bush judiciary.
Oct 16, 2008 / Feature / Herman Schwartz
Camp Bucca: Iraq’s Guantánamo Bay Camp Bucca: Iraq’s Guantánamo Bay
What will the United States do with 20,000 Iraqis in legal limbo?
Oct 8, 2008 / Feature / David Enders
Justice, Bush-Style Justice, Bush-Style
GOP loyalists have taken over the Justice Department and retooled the civil rights division as a political weapon.
Oct 1, 2008 / Feature / Andrew Gumbel
No Exit: Laurence Tribe and ‘The Invisible Constitution’ No Exit: Laurence Tribe and ‘The Invisible Constitution’
Laurence Tribe's new book asks us to consider the "invisible" web of ideas that have grown around the text of the Constitution. But who's to say what it contains?
Oct 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Justice Delayed and Denied at Guantanámo Justice Delayed and Denied at Guantanámo
The Supreme Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush affirmed prisoners' right to habeas corpus, but the government is stalling; and such delays may keep detainees imprisoned indefinit...
In Arizona, Illegal Immigrants Face Federal Criminal Charges In Arizona, Illegal Immigrants Face Federal Criminal Charges
Massive workplace raids are part of a pressure campaign for guest-worker programs.
Sep 18, 2008 / Feature / David Bacon
Juvenile Junction Juvenile Junction
Can Congress build a platform to change America's juvenile justice system?
Sep 15, 2008 / Feature / Will Di Novi
Whither Capital Punishment Whither Capital Punishment
As a seven-month national moratorium on executions comes to an end, where does the student movement against the death penalty go?
Sep 9, 2008 / StudentNation / The Nation
Mexico’s Drug Problem–and Ours Mexico’s Drug Problem–and Ours
Drug-related violence tearing Mexican society apart. Is America next?
Sep 6, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman