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
Pardon Whom? Pardon Whom?
Dear George Bush: Don't stop with Scooter Libby. Why not go all the way and pardon everyone unfairly held behind bars?
Jul 12, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Racists & Robber Barons Racists & Robber Barons
Rather than build a unified culture in a diverse society, the conservative Gang of Five that now dominates the Supreme Court is polarizing the country.
Jul 12, 2007 / Editorial / David Kirp
What We Owe the Working Poor What We Owe the Working Poor
The Supreme Court's recent decision to deny home-care workers the right to overtime pay is speeding a race to the bottom that will affect every working person.
Jul 9, 2007 / Feature / Annette Bernhardt
Independence Day for Libby Independence Day for Libby
Liberated from having to serve time for his crime, he shares a perch with Bush and Cheney, somewhere high above the law.
Jul 4, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Supremely Bad Decisions Supremely Bad Decisions
With gleeful judicial activism, the Roberts Court swings right and sides with the interests of power.
Jun 29, 2007 / Editorial / Bruce Shapiro
Zyklon B on the US Border Zyklon B on the US Border
A grim history lesson of what happened in the 1920s when fears of alien infection inflamed American eugenicists.
Jun 21, 2007 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
A New Green Card Deal A New Green Card Deal
History is full of examples showing that policies designed to exclude immigrants are doomed to fail.