Truth and Reconciliation
Criminal prosecutions of the members of the Bush administration will not enable us to do what we most need to do, which is to gain a full public understanding of what was done over the past eight years.
Criminal prosecutions of the members of the Bush administration will not enable us to do what we most need to do, which is to gain a full public understanding of what was done over the past eight years.
Kim Mance | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living
A substitute teacher was led away in handcuffs and convicted of felony charges after she couldn't stop a stream of pop-up pornography ads on a computer in her seventh grade classroom.
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Call Response weaves raw footage shot undercover in brothels and sweatshops in the developing world with talking heads such as Cornel West.
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
Our top issue -- closing down Gitmo and shutting down the military commissions -- can be done as soon as he lifts his left hand, picks up the new presidential pen and signs an executive order.
Paula Gordon | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
While the fate of the nation hangs in the balance, so does that of Troy Anthony Davis. He personifies the continuing threat to justice (and to life) of our de facto judicial system.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
This week, with the news of the U.S. financial crisis dominating the headlines, the United Nations General Assembly opened its annual meeting. The th...
Diane Dimond | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media
The shoulder-shrug position will be that Simpson's celebrity attracts trouble, not the other way around.
Sara Paretsky | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics
The constitution says "We the People." Not, we the billionaires. Not, we the believers in Creationism. Not, we the oil industry lobbyists. Just, we the people.
Jane Guskin | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
One of the government documents in the case is so sloppy that it repeatedly misspells the name of the group Hamas as "Ramas."
Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics
A calm day. A sunny, day, for San Francisco - which means really foggy with what will ultimately be an unfulfilled promise of sun later. A nice day, w...
Danny Schechter | Posted 08.26.2008 | Politics
Traditionally, time seems to slow down, I mean slooooo down, at summer's end. The phone calls taper off along with the emails. We have now had endles...
Russ Wellen | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Vincent Bugliosi talks about appearing before the House Judiciary Committee. RW: Will the next president have any say in the prosecution of George Bu...
Naazish YarKhan | Posted 08.15.2008 | Chicago
Frankfort Township Official in Hot Seat for Promoting Anti-Muslim Sentiments Aug. 12, Frankfort, IL - When challenges occur, one never knows whether...
Lisa Gans | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
A corrupt society like that in Afghanistan is a lawless one, and in a lawless environment, nothing works and everyone lives in fear, clinging to tribal or ethnic affiliations to protect them.
Nathan Robinson | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics
What the four Iowans who tried to arrest Karl Rove did is courageous, and is exactly how we should use the citizen arrest power.
Mort Rosenblum | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
Stepping back, we might take stock of where we are as a civilized world 16 years after Radovan Karadzic was allowed to exterminate people he found inconvenient.
Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home
The Supreme Court has shifted dangerously to the right and is now the most pro-business Court since the monopoly greasing "Lochner-era" Court of the late 19th century.
Mort Rosenblum | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
However unintended, Roxanna Brown suffered capital punishment without trial because of what appears to be simple identity theft, now so common to our daily lives.
Russ Wellen | Posted 07.04.2008 | Living
There's an even stronger impulse driving some to the vigilante act than grandiosity: the realization that if you do nothing, you've essentially allowed yourself to be held hostage, not necessarily to the perpetrator, but to fear.
Russ Wellen | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living
If spontaneous and proportional to the crime, the vigilante act, as opposed to the practice, is not a crime. In fact, there's no shortage of situations which call for taking the law into one's hands.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics
To be clear, this is not a partisan effort -- It's a legally binding and provable case for murder, that Bugliosi -- an American patriot -- would bring against any president regardless of affiliation.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Bush's term in office will be remembered for the precedents it set, particularly in relation to the presidential power, and the separation of powers between the three branches of U.S. government.
Diane Dimond | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics
I know a man connected to the justice system who makes eight thousand dollars a day. You read that right. When he shows up in a courtroom for a client his very presence and whispered advice to the lead attorney is worth 8 thousand dollars per day.
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
Divorce in Massachusetts means never have to say goodbye to your ex. Decades after your divorce, you can be dragged to court, or you can do the dragging yourself.
Amy Ephron | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
We should all declare June 12, to be Habeas Corpus Day. And I hope that we celebrate it forever.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
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Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
Last night, CNN's Campbell Brown criticized President-elect...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
DALLAS — Of all the cajoling, snide remarks and...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
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Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics