Locked Up in New Orleans Locked Up in New Orleans
In response to a crime wave, police are imprisoning a record number of nonviolent offenders.
Aug 23, 2007 / Feature / Robin Templeton
Bush’s Immigration Clampdown Crimped Bush’s Immigration Clampdown Crimped
A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.
Aug 22, 2007 / Feature / David Bacon
The Real Lesson of the Padilla Conviction The Real Lesson of the Padilla Conviction
If it had followed the rule of law from the outset, the Bush Administration could have brought many terrorists to justice by now.
Aug 18, 2007 / Editorial / David Cole
Stars and Bars Stars and Bars
How did the American criminal justice system go so wrong?
Aug 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
The Protect Alberto Gonzales Act of 2007 The Protect Alberto Gonzales Act of 2007
Congress bows to Bush and passes a law that allows blanket data-mining of all phone calls or e-mail by anyone, anywhere.
Aug 9, 2007 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Sacco & Vanzetti Today Sacco & Vanzetti Today
History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism.
Aug 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Moshik Temkin
Data-Mining Our Liberties Data-Mining Our Liberties
Despite blistering criticism of warrantless surveillance, the Bush Administration rammed a law through Congress that authorizes spying on our calls and e-mails. How did they get aw...
Dangerous Privilege Dangerous Privilege
We need a law to define and limit the President's claim of executive privilege, and should set a process for Congress to overcome it.
A Migrant Summit A Migrant Summit
Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different discussion of the same issues continues below the border.
Jul 13, 2007 / Feature / Roberto Lovato
Mourning in America Mourning in America
As the Supreme Court rules public schools cannot take voluntary action to overcome racial inequality, what's surprising is the lack of outcry.
Jul 12, 2007 / Column / Patricia J. Williams