Law

It’s Time to Break Up the Big Banks It’s Time to Break Up the Big Banks

When will Congress and the White House wake up to the fact that big banks are still playing with bombs? 

May 15, 2012 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Will Oregon Dems Reject Drug War Politics? Will Oregon Dems Reject Drug War Politics?

A primary today in Oregon pits a candidate who will make pot prosecutions a low priority versus another who wants to crack down on medical marijuana. And then there's the case of t...

May 15, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols

What If Straight People Boycotted Marriage? What If Straight People Boycotted Marriage?

What if heterosexual couples voluntarily refused the benefits of marriage that are denied to most of our gay and lesbian friends and family?

May 14, 2012 / Blog / Salamishah Tillet

How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life‬

How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life‬ How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life‬

Why is a first-world country imprisoning its children for life?

May 10, 2012 / Video / Francis Reynolds

Throwaway People: Teens Sent to Die in Prison Will Get a Second Chance

Throwaway People: Teens Sent to Die in Prison Will Get a Second Chance Throwaway People: Teens Sent to Die in Prison Will Get a Second Chance

Trina Garnett accidentally set a fatal fire when she was 14. That was in 1976. Could today’s Supreme Court ruling against juvenile life without parole finally bring her home?

May 9, 2012 / Feature / Liliana Segura

International Criminal Court on Trial in Kenya

International Criminal Court on Trial in Kenya International Criminal Court on Trial in Kenya

Has the ICC struck a blow against impunity or heightened tensions—or both?

May 9, 2012 / Feature / Karen Rothmyer

If Charles Taylor Can Be Tried for War Crimes, Why Not Kissinger? If Charles Taylor Can Be Tried for War Crimes, Why Not Kissinger?

The former Liberian dictator abetted the atrocities of a proxy army. Henry Kissinger did the same in Indonesia/East Timor.

May 9, 2012 / Feature / Reed Brody

For Firing a Warning Shot, Florida Mother Faces Twenty Years in Prison For Firing a Warning Shot, Florida Mother Faces Twenty Years in Prison

Where was Florida's Stand Your Ground law for this victim of domestic violence?

May 7, 2012 / Blog / Melissa Harris-Perry

May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place? May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place?

May Day in New York was chaotic, creative and diffuse. Was it a glimpse of what’s to come? Or a the wreckage of what’s left on the left?

May 3, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders

Roger Williams, America’s First Rebel

Roger Williams, America’s First Rebel Roger Williams, America’s First Rebel

The founder of Providence was the first to see that religious freedom, and separation of church and state, was intimately connected with political freedom.  

May 2, 2012 / Feature / John M. Barry

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