Society

On the Genealogy of Morals On the Genealogy of Morals

Inventing Human Rights traces the roots of humanitarian concern back to the eighteenth century. But there's a world of difference between then and now.

Mar 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn

How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits

Wounded soldiers returning from Iraq are increasingly being wrongly diagnosed by the military, which prevents them from collecting benefits.

Mar 29, 2007 / Feature / Joshua Kors

Porn Cop vs. US Attorney Porn Cop vs. US Attorney

A federal prosecutor fired as he was launching an investigation of a GOP Congressman now stands smeared by the White House and its antiporn crusader.

Mar 29, 2007 / Max Blumenthal

Prosecutors and the Death Penalty Prosecutors and the Death Penalty

As the US Attorney purge scandal intensifies, new light is shed on federal prosecutors' struggles with the Justice Department over the death penalty.

Mar 29, 2007 / Feature / Liliana Segura

Surveillance Makes You Paranoid Surveillance Makes You Paranoid

Reports that New York police conducted sweeping nationwide surveillance of people suspected of anti-Bush sentiment in 2004 just might scare us into silence.

Mar 28, 2007 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman

The War Against Google The War Against Google

Viacom, NBC and NewsCorp./Fox are waging war against Google in a high-stakes scramble to cash in on the unmined riches of the Internet. At what cost to us?

Mar 23, 2007 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester

Goodbye, Baltimore Goodbye, Baltimore

In a kinetic and searching memoir, Ace of Spades, David Matthews confronts the identity questions that bedeviled him growing up biracial.

Mar 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kate Levin

Veiled Intolerance Veiled Intolerance

A batch of new books describe how European governments have dealt with Muslim immigrants and citizens since 9/11.

Mar 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Richard Wolin

Class War in Conrad’s Court Class War in Conrad’s Court

The jury selection for the trial of a Canadian press baron accused of looting shareholder earnings reveals popular discontent with the corporate elite.

Mar 22, 2007 / Column / Naomi Klein

Sami Al-Arian Sami Al-Arian

Dr. Sami Al-Arian could die in jail.

Mar 22, 2007 / The Editors

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