When President Obama proposed an increase in the federal minimum wage last month, you could almost hear conservative economists and pundits smacking their lips in anticipation. After all, there's nothing that gets this crowd going like mandating a wage increase, even if it's from the downright Dickensian $7.25 currently required...

When presidential candidate Mitt Romney endorsed a return to "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding, it was a troubling reminder that the debate over torture's efficacy -- and even its morality -- still drones on. Romney's embrace of torture has been echoed this year alone by former Vice...

As we celebrate liberty and democracy on July 4th, let us ask what our founding fathers would have had to say about the current torture debate.

July 4th patriotism takes many forms. For some of us, Independence Day is a perfect opportunity to measure the state of our nation against...

There's little doubt that 2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab Spring, and rightly so. While it's too early to predict the ultimate fate of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and other Middle Eastern countries, the popular uprisings in these nations represented nothing less than an epic battle for...

With the death of Osama bin Laden, torture apologists are having a field day, claiming that the al Qaeda leader's demise was made possible by the kind of illegal interrogation techniques championed by the Bush Administration.

I decided to run this idea by one of our clients, Abdoulaye,...

On December 10, the international community will mark the 60th annual Human Rights Day, celebrating the adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

But how did the world fare this year in the arena of human rights?

On many fronts, the news was dismal, with...

On June 19, Ibio Efrén Caicedo, a teacher and trade union activist in Colombia, was murdered. He was the seventh unionized teacher killed this year in that country's Antioquia region.

Caicedo's murder was hardly an anomaly. More than 100 union activists were killed in 2009, according to a report...