Broken ICE Broken ICE
Inside ICE's secret detention facility on Varick Street in Manhattan.
Feb 25, 2010 / Editorial / Jacqueline Stevens
Convergences Convergences
The cost of failing to see our common fate.
Feb 25, 2010 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Justice at Last? Justice at Last?
Justice may finally be imaginable for Edna Glover and her family. The charred remains of her son Henry were discovered in the burnt hulk of a car on a levee overlooking the Mississ...
Feb 13, 2010 / The Notion / Esther Kaplan
Make CEOs Take Responsibility for Democracy-Warping Ads Make CEOs Take Responsibility for Democracy-Warping Ads
As someone who has written several books and dozens of major articles on judicial interventions in our politics, and who has covered literally hundreds of campaigns in every state ...
Feb 11, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols
Torture Lawyers on Trial? Torture Lawyers on Trial?
Spain is leading the charge to criminally investigate US government officials over torture.
Feb 11, 2010 / Editorial / David Cole
Ron Unz, Latinos, Liberals, and Scholarship Ron Unz, Latinos, Liberals, and Scholarship
I was not surprised by "HisPANIC: the Myth of Immigrant Crime," Ron Unz's article in The American Conservative showing that Latinos in the US have a crime rate no higher...
Feb 11, 2010 / Blog / Katha Pollitt
Trials and Terror Trials and Terror
Four Republicans continue to misrepresent the rights of the accused "underwear" bomber--despite having been briefed on those rights on Christmas Day.
Do Terrorists Deserve Due Process? Do Terrorists Deserve Due Process?
Hayes debates Scarborough over the constitutional rights of terrorists.
The Bogus Crime Wave The Bogus Crime Wave
A host of politicians and pundits would have you believe that Hispanic immigrants are to blame for an uptick in urban crime. They're wrong.
Feb 4, 2010 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Scalia v. The World: On Antonin Scalia Scalia v. The World: On Antonin Scalia
Who is the purest archetype of the conservative legal movement, Antonin Scalia or John Roberts?
Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell