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A Human Rights Court Gives Torture the Green Light (International Law, Jails and Prisons, The Constitution)

In refusing to block the extradition of terror suspects to the US, the European Court for Human Rights has condoned a brutal regimen of long-term solitary confinement.

Jeanne Theoharis and Saskia Sassen
The 1 Percent Court
The 1 Percent Court (The Constitution, The Courts)

A Court for the money power, and our democracy is at stake.

Bill Moyers and Bernard A. Weisberger
How the Right Packed the Court (Supreme Court, Conservatives and the American Right)

The long-term campaign to roll back the New Deal.

William Yeomans
'Citizens United' and the Corporate Court
'Citizens United' and the Corporate Court (Supreme Court, Citizens United, The Constitution, The Courts)

Giving corporations the inalienable right to buy elections.

Jamie Raskin
One Nation by and for the Corporations
One Nation by and for the Corporations (Supreme Court)

Courts that shelter the powerful and evict the little guy.

Dahlia Lithwick
The Roberts Court and Wall Street (Supreme Court, Corporate Lobbying)

The Court’s next project: saving Wall Street from Dodd-Frank.

Michael Greenberger
Isolating America's Workers
Isolating America's Workers (Supreme Court, Labor)

The pendulum swings hard against the rights of labor.

Craig Becker and Judith Scott
Rewriting Antitrust Law (Supreme Court, Law, Mergers and Antitrust)

Helping the big get bigger, the strong get stronger.

Herman Schwartz
A Court Out of Touch (Supreme Court)

Today’s justices do not hear the real America.

Sherrilyn Ifill
The Way Forward
The Way Forward (Supreme Court, The Constitution, The Courts)

Fight for a Court that speaks of and for the rest of us.

Nan Aron

Blogs

Occupy the NRA
Allison Kilkenny

An offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement has responded to the Connecticut massacre, calling for gun control policies that will save lives. 

December 17, 2012
How ALEC Thwarts Honest Debate About Gun Violence
John Nichols

The corporate group produces “model” legislation designed to prevent action. Even when mass killings demand it.

December 16, 2012
After School Massacre: Writers and Commentators Call for Tough, Fast Action on Guns
Greg Mitchell

Everyone from Nicholas Kristof to Yoko Ono is speaking out for gun control.

December 14, 2012
Does the NRA Represent Gun Manufacturers or Gun Owners?
Lee Fang

The National Rifle Association has successfully stymied any effort to regulate gun ownership, but whom do they really represent?

December 14, 2012
Sixteen US Mass Shootings Happened in 2012, Leaving at Least 88 Dead
George Zornick

Indiscriminate gun violence happened at a wide variety of different places—the only thing predicable is the frequency. 

December 14, 2012
Three Common-Sense Gun Bills That Can't Pass Congress
George Zornick

Washington is so paralyzed on gun control it can’t seem to pass fundamentally sensible reforms. 

December 14, 2012
In Drug War, Small Victories Are Not the Revolution. Director Eugene Jarecki [VIDEO]
Laura Flanders

November's victories at the ballot box show the drug war is vulnerable. 

December 10, 2012
'NYT' Public Editor Again Hits Paper Over Coverage of Bradley Manning Hearing
Greg Mitchell

After a wave of criticism, The New York Times finally sent a reporter to the Manning trial… for a few hours.

December 10, 2012
Anger Rises in Cleveland After Police Fire 137 Shots at an Unarmed Couple
Greg Mitchell

Community members cried “murder!” during a public forum opened to discuss the shooting.

December 7, 2012
Bob Costas: 'I Stand by What I Said'
Dave Zirin

Costas has ignited a firestorm after his comments on gun culture during halftime of Sunday Night Football. He tells us now why he won’t back down.

December 6, 2012
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