Surveillance Can’t Make Us Secure Surveillance Can’t Make Us Secure
The goal of government surveillance is to create a deliberate backdoor into secure systems. The appeal to a hacker is obvious.
Jan 29, 2010 / Feature / Julian Sanchez
Tiller’s Killer Puts Abortion on Trial Tiller’s Killer Puts Abortion on Trial
Judge Warren Wilbert has ruled that Scott Roeder, confessed killer of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, couldn't be considered for lesser crimes than first-degree murder. Tod...
Jan 29, 2010 / Feature / Sharon Lerner
Obama’s “Eager to See” Better Approach on Health Reform? O.K. Obama’s “Eager to See” Better Approach on Health Reform? O.K.
President Obama renewed his call for health-care reform in his first State of the Union address but, as has been the case from the start of the current debate over how to get more ...
Jan 28, 2010 / John Nichols
America’s Secret Afghan Prisons America’s Secret Afghan Prisons
Villagers and human rights officials accuse the United States military of torturing suspects in hidden detention centers.
Jan 28, 2010 / Feature / Anand Gopal
Corpus Ex Machina Corpus Ex Machina
Citizens United raises the questions: why is speech the functional equivalent of money, and why are corporations considered persons?
Jan 28, 2010 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Games Journalists Play The Games Journalists Play
Books like Game Change are more instructive for what they reveal about the community that prizes them than for the information they contain.
Jan 28, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman
Death and Cover-Up at Guantánamo Death and Cover-Up at Guantánamo
Staying the hand of justice on torture has gained the Obama administration nothing from Republicans. It's time to investigate deaths at Guantánamo.
Jan 28, 2010 / The Editors
Noted. Noted.
Robert Gates admits that Blackwater is in Pakistan; Air America signs off.
Jan 28, 2010 / The Editors
Democracy Inc. Democracy Inc.
The Citizens United campaign finance decision makes it possible for the nation's most powerful economic interests to manipulate not just individual electoral contests but political...
Jan 28, 2010 / The Editors
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.
Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella