Unnatural Acts Unnatural Acts

By now, it has become something of a media cliché to watch "fringe" protesters jumping up and down from the edges of G-8 conferences held at ever more remote locations.

Jun 24, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Divining the Court Divining the Court

Our best legal brains are still scratching their heads about the Supreme Court decision in the Pledge of Allegiance case (see Elisabeth Sifton, " Jun 17, 2004 / The Editors

Torture and Democracy Torture and Democracy

If there was ever any doubt, it is now clear that the torture at Abu Ghraib cannot be dismissed as the actions of a few bad actors.

Jun 17, 2004 / The Editors

Reefer Madness Reefer Madness

If there was anything unusual in Judge Douglas Ginsburg's rapid descent, it was probably the sight of White House conservatives scrambling to create a loophole in the national dr...

Jun 7, 2004 / Abbie Hoffman

Diversity and Its Discontents Diversity and Its Discontents

For most of his half-century-long career, Samuel Huntington, professor of government at Harvard, has made a point of telling the US ruling elite what it has most wanted to hear.

May 27, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

Slow Motion Slow Motion

The Justice Department recently announced its intention to reopen the Emmett Till case.

May 27, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Hawks Eating Crow Hawks Eating Crow

The Bush Administration has not made it easy on its supporters. David Brooks now admits that he was gripped with a "childish fantasy" about Iraq.

May 20, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

Orders to Torture Orders to Torture

The Abu Ghraib prison scandal now implicates the highest levels of the Bush Administration in violating federal law and in war crimes.

May 20, 2004 / The Editors

Green Lights for Torture Green Lights for Torture

So there were WMDs in Iraq after all. They're called digital cameras. Partly because of them, the United States faces one of the most humiliating defeats in imperial history.

May 13, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

On the Abuse of Prisoners in Iraq On the Abuse of Prisoners in Iraq

We're told that the few rotten apples
Who brought on this sordid affair'll
Be punished. But what if those apples
Are right at the top of the barrel?

May 13, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin