Nation Topics - Jose Padilla | The Nation

Why did Obama administration lawyers refuse to discount the possibility, even for First Amendment–protected speech?

Marcy Wheeler on indefinite detention for US citizens, Peter Kornbluh on the legacy of US complicity in Chile and the editors on Tony Kushner, winner of the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.

After 9/11, it's less controversial to kill a suspect in cold blood than to hold him in preventive detention.

The US government relies heavily on the testimony of self-styled terrorism experts in prosecuting the "war on terror." But how credible are they?

The systematic abuse of an American citizen charged with vague crimes related to terror has destroyed his sanity and made us into what we despise.

"Ask for a lawyer immediately upon your arrest," reads the little
informational card the ACLU hands out to citizens.