Two health professionals violated fundamental medical ethics while developing and implementing a pervasive system of interrogation by torture.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.12.2009 | Comedy
Tracy Klugian, 42, was being questioned by police, who suspect he might have been trying to disrupt the gun show with an impromptu discussion of national health care reform.
Josh Horwitz | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Exhortations to take armed political action against Obama reflect a deeply developed ideology that has been actively promoted by gun lobby groups for 30 years.
Cindy Handler | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
With a Democratic president and Congress, gun nuts are getting away with their wildest agendas. They're taking advantage of their countrymen in a time of urgency, and they're anything but patriotic.
Richard Laermer | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
A state that recognizes same-sex marriage is entitled to have its "public act, record, and judicial proceeding" (and marriage is arguably all three) respected by all the other states.
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
A former Republican member of House of Representatives demanded on Thursday that Congress launch an investigation into possible crimes committed under...
Richard Laermer | Posted 08.16.2009 | Media
The issue before the Senate is simple: Is the nominee qualified to sit on the Court? The answer: Yes. All the kvetching about how a nominee's race shaped her worldview is for the cameras, baby.
Mark Dorlester | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
The framers of the Constitution were passionate about the fact that the document was never to be interpreted as a grant of rights.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Senate confirmation hearings on judicial nominations are a form of Kabuki Theater in which everyone plays their assigned roles and no one tells the whole truth.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
The JusticeBot 9000: You said you wanted a machine that took all the human factor out of the law, so that emotion and empathy would be forever banished from the bench.
Think Progress | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
During the opening day of confirmation hearings, Judge Sonia Sotomayor came under fire from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) for stating that her experien...
The Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
The fight over school curriculum in Texas, recently focused on biology, has entered a new arena, with a brewing debate over how much faith belongs in ...
Shahid Buttar | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Whether called "preventive", "indefinite" or "prolonged," prevention detention schemes are essentially lawless, unconstitutional and un-American. At its root, detention without trial threatens democracy.
Karen Kwiatkowski | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
Somewhere in the world a Constitution is being exercised. God forbid it happen in the United States.
The Washington Independant | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective. Asked by Sen. Mel...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics
I don't know what to call it but the Convolution Party aired its brand new platform on the steps of a Land of Lincoln courthouse, some in their Glenn Beck Live Free or Die shirts.
Al Giordano | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
The coup defenders are afraid of losing their "freedoms." But today, in one fell swoop their leaders erased those very freedoms, atop all the other ones they've already burned alive.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living
One of the "Forgotten Founders" is James Wilson, whose contributions to the creation of the United States of America were obscured by his later disgrace.
Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.
Judith E. Schaeffer | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
Sen. Sessions spent much of his time criticizing a dissent by Judge Sotomayor in the case of Hayden v. Pataki, in which Judge Sotomayor followed the plain words of the federal statute in question, apparently to Sen. Sessions' dismay.
Peter M. Shane | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
America's legal progressives are wondering how to re-engage the American public more generally in a serious discussion about the role of federal judge...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 07.20.2009 | Home
For more than 200 years, Americans have enjoyed the freedoms of speech, assembly, and religion, among others, without ever really studying the source of those liberties.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Our leaders have all morphed in to one large, non-identified, political animal that proports to stand for something but has ended up standing for very little at all.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
Our nation's most notorious criminals violate our most fundamental laws and remain not only free, but actively engaged in influencing our national security policies.
Allen Keller | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics