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The Question Carlin Left Behind: What is Obscenity?

Danny Schechter | Posted 06.30.2008 | Entertainment


Danny Schechter

Comic social commentators like George Carlin, Lenny Bruce and mavericks like New York's Ugly George have been uncturing the pervasive hypocrisy on the issue of obscenity laws.

Scalia's Choice: More Deaths to Defend the Constitution

Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics


Sandy Goodman

Congratulations, Justice Scalia! Now we can all look forward to years of arguing over just exactly when, where and how the right to have guns in the home applies.

Is Obama Selling Out on FISA bill?

Art Levine | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics


Art Levine

Is Obama being a shrewd politician or selling out civil liberties? That's the question raised by Glenn Greenwald's tough new column taking Obama to task for supporting the bogus "compromise" bill.

Obama Silent as Democrats Give Bush More Spying Powers

Ari Melber | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics


Ari Melber

Democratic leaders in Congress are poised to grant new spying powers to President Bush and arrange retroactive amnesty for telecommunications companie...

Greening Hollywood: Arianna on The Green Carpet at The Millennium Awards

Paige Donner | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

Arianna was chosen to present the California Environmental Leadership Award to the LA Unified School District at Global Green's annual Millennium Awards held in Santa Monica June 14th.

Just Say No to Federal Funding For Drug War

Bill Piper | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics


Bill Piper

Congress has yet again renewed the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant program, a federal law enforcement grant program that is feeding the war on drugs and fueling racial disparities, police corruption, and civil rights abuses.

Dems in Congress Moving Now to Spy on Americans, Reward Telecoms

Art Levine | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics


Art Levine

The Democratic-led Congress, with the support of key House leaders, is moving quickly to expand unconstitutional spying authority on Americans and reward telecoms for breaking the law.

Don't Miss Anthony Romero and Ava Lowery in This Brave Nation Episode 3

Robert Greenwald | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media


Robert Greenwald

This Brave Nation, a documentary series that brings progressive activists and thinkers together in one place -- your computer screen!

Ava Lowery on Fear and Optimism

Erikka Yancy | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media


Erikka Yancy

While many others and I sat watching bombs exploding over Baghdad on March 20, 2003 with tears in our eyes, Ava was creating videos and speaking out against an illegal war.

He Sees Gay People

Kate Clinton | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics


Kate Clinton

After the craziness of CA, and I must say there was some flaunting and taunting -- "So when are you and yours coming out her to get married?" -- it was great to be back in New York.

ACLU Fights For Justice At Guantanamo

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics


Anthony D. Romero

On Thursday, I will be at Guantánamo watching five men appear before a military commission. The men are accused of participating in the September 11 attacks, and the sentence could be death.

The Repubs' War on One Particular Scientist

Michelle Pilecki | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics


Michelle Pilecki

So you'd think the US would want to hold onto good nuclear physicists, right? Especially American citizens who have been active in the community as well as excellent scientists?

ACLU Takes Sen. Bond to Task on Telecom Immunity

Melissa Hapke | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home


The ACLU wrote that Bond's proposal, "wouldn't actually look at whether telecom companies broke the law; it would just look at what the Bush administration told telecom companies was the law."

Mildred Loving: the Accidental Activist

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics


Arlene M. Roberts

As a first year law student, I was introduced to Mildred Loving by way of Loving v. Virginia, a case that appeared in my Constitutional Law casebook. ...

The Most Savage Shock Jock of Them All

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.23.2008 | Media


Rory O'Connor

Dig deeper, and the question of who Michael Savage is becomes more complicated. "Savage" isn't his real name; it seems to speak to his heightened sense of masculinity, aggression, and antipathy toward minorities.

Five Years of His Life, And What You Can Do About It

Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media


Rachel Haimowitz

So great was my sense of outrage at what happened to this innocent man who was detained for 5 years at Guantanamo, that I immediately sought ways to help those still trapped there.

May Day! May Day! Hijackings of the 4th Estate

Paige Donner | Posted 05.07.2008 | Media


Paige Donner

The title of this piece, Hijackings of the 4th Estate, is purposefully provocative. For any journalist, Blogger or otherwise muckraker laboring in ser...

The End of Freedom in America?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living


John W. Whitehead

You'd think the schools would be grateful for a teacher who serves as a positive, moral role model for young people. But when religion is involved, even heroes like Marcus Borden find themselves under fire.

Phi Beta Interrogator

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

What a horrific statement that some have opted to take their own lives rather than participate in practices that go against their principles.

A Slap in the Face to the American Judicial System

Cecillia Wang | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Cecillia Wang

In late 2006 Arizona passed Proposition 100, an unprecedented anti-immigrant law that forbids judges from considering bail for criminal defendants who are suspected of having "entered or remained in the United States illegally".

Standing Up For Justice In The Military Commissions Proceedings

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Anthony D. Romero

We've been at a critical juncture since September 11. How we respond to the atrocities thrust upon us after that terrible day says everything about who we are as Americans - what values we defend, how the world sees us, and how history will remember us.

Let Justice Roll Down

Steven Denlinger | Posted 03.21.2008 | Living


Steven Denlinger

My Swiss-German world did not promote cross-cultural values -- most of my schoolmates looked pretty much like me. But something was different about the way my parents raised me.

Renewing the Promise of Equal Opportunity

Laleh Ispahani and Alan Jenkins | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics


Laleh Ispahani and Alan Jenkins

The report presented by the U.S. this week at the U.N. hearing on racial discrimination in Geneva ignores the very existence of critical human rights problems in America.

End Military Commissions

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics


Anthony D. Romero

The reputation of the U.S. has been tarnished throughout the world since the Bush administration replaced our military justice systems with a regime of military commissions.

Contempt

Jameel Jaffer | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics


Jameel Jaffer

The CIA's destruction of evidence suggests contempt not only for the court orders but for the foundational idea that intelligence agencies should be subject to democratic control.


 

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