Rethinking the Death Penalty

Politicians and courts are taking their cues from growing public opposition.

Bruce Shapiro

God’s Got Nothing to Do With the Pledge of Allegiance Furor

Belief in God is not the issue in the continuing brouhaha over the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance. Rather, it’s the government’s endorsement of a monotheistic God.

Robert Scheer

Death, Juries and Scalia

Alexander Cockburn

Corporate Human Rights

David Corn

Justice for Battered Women

Victims of domestic violence defend their right to keep their children.

Chris Lombardi

The Shame of Prison Health

Just-released inmates with infectious diseases need continuous treatment.

Sasha Abramsky

Justice Can’t Be Done in Secret

Why public and press have a right to witness military tribunal proceedings.

Edward J. Klaris

Dick Cheney’s Primer on the Constitution

So what’s it called if during war you criticize the President for any reason?
Treason.
And how long does this war go on (and this is where this theory’s really pretty clever)?
Forever.

Calvin Trillin

‘Foreign’? ‘Suspicious’!

Will Evans

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn

Theodore Hamm