By casting the decisive vote in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and other
contentious disputes, Justice Anthony Kennedy plays a crucial role in a
Supreme Court that may soon veer off in an extreme rightward direction.
The Yearly Kos Convention revealed a blogosphere whose media critique
is hampered by its political ambitions. Why can’t progressives repair
the press, not dismantle it?
International law offers protection to the oppressed. In Are Women
Human?, feminist legal scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon exposes the
hypocrisy of not extending the same protection to women.
The digital environs of Facebook and MySpace are ruled by assortive
principles and the misplaced faith that an actuarial table is any kind
of community–beloved, political or otherwise.
If there is any message to be gleaned from the World Cup, it is
that soccer has finally shed its freight of machismo and anguish,
attracting a global audience of fans who simply want to have fun.
What Warren Buffett’s gift of billions to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation lacks in imagination, it makes up for in safety. If only they had the guts to tackle the real problems.
By blindly accepting Bush’s expansion of state secrets claims, the courts are allowing the executive branch to operate above the law, putting the core principles of our democracy at risk.
The Supreme Court’s Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision is to Bush what the Pentagon Papers were to Nixon: a devastating rebuke of a President who thought he had a blank check and a clear affirmation of human rights and the rule of law.
Progressives can take a lesson from the success of “How Would a Patriot Act?” Mobilize the liberal blogosphere and take an obscure book for a ride on the bestseller list.