The Ugly Truth About Your Shrimp Cocktail The Ugly Truth About Your Shrimp Cocktail
Reports of enslavement and forced labor in Thailand’s $7.3 billion fishing-export industry reveal a clear link between illegal fishing, environmental degradation and human ri...
Jun 27, 2014 / Michelle Chen
How the ACA Can Revolutionize Inmate Healthcare How the ACA Can Revolutionize Inmate Healthcare
Jails have become the front line for health problems that plague underserved communities in America. The Affordable Care Act provides an opportunity to improve continuity in treatm...
Jun 27, 2014 / Maura Ewing
Supreme Court Says Police Need a Warrant to Search Your Phone Supreme Court Says Police Need a Warrant to Search Your Phone
But will they apply the same logic to the NSA’s massive surveillance dragnet?
Jun 26, 2014 / Robert Scheer
Four Ways the Fourth Amendment No Longer Applies to Our Lives Four Ways the Fourth Amendment No Longer Applies to Our Lives
Since 9/11, the government has ceaselessly violated our constitutional rights—none more so than the right to privacy.
Jun 26, 2014 / Peter Van Buren
What the SCOTUS Decision Ending Obama’s Recess Appointment Power Means What the SCOTUS Decision Ending Obama’s Recess Appointment Power Means
The Supreme Court decided Thursday to end President Obama’s ability to make recess appointments.
Jun 26, 2014 / George Zornick
Supreme Court Strikes Down Law That Keeps Anti-Choice Protesters 35 Feet Away From Abortion Clinics Supreme Court Strikes Down Law That Keeps Anti-Choice Protesters 35 Feet Away From Abortion Clinics
Massachusetts’s 35-foot buffer between health clinic patients and anti-abortion advocates has been ruled unconstitutional.
Jun 26, 2014 / Dani McClain
Will the Tea Party Actually Ditch the GOP? Will the Tea Party Actually Ditch the GOP?
Let’s hope so.
Jun 26, 2014 / Bob and Barbara Dreyfuss
Putin’s Ukraine Policy Backfires Putin’s Ukraine Policy Backfires
Whatever Russia may have wanted to accomplish in Ukraine since last November, it has accomplished the opposite.
Jun 26, 2014 / Bob Dreyfuss
Seeking Justice—or At Least the Truth—for ‘Comfort Women’ Seeking Justice—or At Least the Truth—for ‘Comfort Women’
A growing global movement is ensuring that if the Japanese government won’t hold itself accountable for its crimes against women, then history will.
Jun 25, 2014 / Christine Ahn and Foreign Policy In Focus
Supreme Court Kills the Old Robocop Dream Supreme Court Kills the Old Robocop Dream
The justices didn’t quote Christian Parenti, but they should have.
Jun 25, 2014 / Richard Kreitner