Tag: law

Reports: We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Reports: The Best Justice That Money Can Buy

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

Reports: Opium, Rape and the American Way

Reports: TARP on Steroids

Reports: Racist Judge Inadvertently Makes the Case for Gay Marriage

Reports: Wall Street ‘Crimes’ Need Better Policing

Reports: A Tale of Two Supermen—and Their Drugs

Ear to the Ground: White House Lawyer in Trouble for Doing His Job

Ear to the Ground: A Cruel and Unusual Waste of Money

Ear to the Ground: Boom Times for Pot Growers

Ear to the Ground: High Times for States’ Rights

Ear to the Ground: Louisiana Official Refuses to License Interracial Marriage

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

Reports: The Gay Divorce Fandango

Ear to the Ground: ‘Viva Berlusconi’? Not So Much

Reports: Watch What You Tweet

Ear to the Ground: D.C. Expected to Legalize Gay Marriage

Reports: A Slippery Slope on Guns

Truthdig Podcast: The Torture Memos

Reports: Polanski Brings Out the Worst in Hollywood

Reports: A Question of Health—and Equality

Reports: Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Reports: Michael Vick’s Long, Strange Detour

Reports: Reflections on the ‘Godfather’ of Neoconservatism

Ear to the Ground: Justice to Tackle Federal Secrecy Abuses

Ear to the Ground: FCC Backs Net Neutrality

Ear to the Ground: Massachusetts Close to Replacing Kennedy With a Temp

Reports: Why We Fight the Tire War With China

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Finds Israel War Crimes in Gaza

Reports: Wilson and Our National Character

Ear to the Ground: Nothing Has Changed on Wall Street

Reports: We’ve Seen This Trigger Before

Reports: Full Text of the President’s Speech to Congress

Ear to the Ground: Sudanese Women Whipped for Wearing ‘Indecent’ Pants

Reports: It Could Be the End of Our Democracy as We Know It

Reports: From ‘Do No Harm’ to Torture

Reports: Don’t Be Fooled by the Public Option

Ear to the Ground: ‘Death With Dignity’ for the Public Option?

Reports: Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire

Reports: Law, Not Torture, Protects National Security

Reports: His Own Man

Reports: The Eternal Flame

Reports: Only One U.S. Official Has Taken an Honorable Stand on Torture

Reports: We Need to Know What Was Done in Our Name

Reports: This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery

Ear to the Ground: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti

Reports: Freedom From Fear—and the Second Amendment

Reports: Enabling the Gun Nuts

Reports: Troy Davis and the Meaning of ‘Actual Innocence’

Reports: New York’s War on Marijuana

Reports: Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Targets Afghan Drug Suspects for Killing

Reports: Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland

Reports: 35 Years After Nixon

Ear to the Ground: U.K. to Monitor Families With In-Home Surveillance

Reports: A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House

Ear to the Ground: Guantanamo 2

Reports: So Much for the Promised Land

Reports: ‘Judicial Activism’ on Campaign Finance Law

Reports: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Reports: It’s Time for the U.S. to Declare Victory and Go Home

Ear to the Ground: Release of One of Youngest at Gitmo Is Ordered

Reports: Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups

Reports: What if the Big Cheese Had Been White?

Reports: Let NRA-Loving Senators Practice What They Preach

Reports: The 21st Century Color Line

Cartoons: The Nightmare

Reports: Pedophiles, Witches and Kids

Reports: Stains From the Bush Era Won’t Fade

Reports: Sotomayor Enters the D.C. Twilight Zone

Reports: Obama’s Court Votes May Return to Haunt Him

Ear to the Ground: L.A. Tagged as the City Meanest to the Homeless

Ear to the Ground: Confirmation Remarks Worth Revisiting

Reports: Closet Racism in the Age of Obama

Reports: Sotomayor’s Critics Are the Real Radicals

Reports: Two Standards of Detention

Reports: So This Is What Victory Looks Like?

Reports: The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed

Reports: The Age of Paine

Ear to the Ground: Court Overturns India’s Gay Sex Ban

Reports: Warming Up a New Politics?

Cartoons: Welcome to the Next 150 Years

Reports: The Root of Madoff’s Evil

Ear to the Ground: Kucinich Says Climate Bill Might Make Things Worse

Reports: The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions

Reports: Poster Addict for Tobacco Law

Reports: Courtly Politics

Reports: Foreclosure Fiasco

Reports: Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Surprises With Civil Rights Decision

Reports: The AMA’s Unhealthy Obsession

Reports: Why Patch-and-Fill Won’t Do

Reports: Obama’s Economic Misfits Finally Get It

Ear to the Ground: Obama OKs Some Benefits for Gay Federal Workers’ Partners

Reports: The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger

Reports: Guns and the Link We Won’t Admit

Reports: Obama and the Politics of Short Memories

Ear to the Ground: Gays Losing Patience With Team Obama

Reports: The Lone Wolves Among Us

Reports: The Justice Business

Reports: A Republican to Save Us

Reports: Two Men Who Stood Under the Plunderers’ Knives

Reports: Outrage—and Business as Usual

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Lawyers Opposed Torture but Saw It as Legal

Ear to the Ground: Man Arrested in Threat to Blow Up Sotomayor

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: Domestic Terrorism by Any Standard

Reports: What Rhetoric Won’t Cure

A/V Booth: O’Reilly: ‘If I Could Get My Hands on Tiller ... ’

Ear to the Ground: New Hampshire Legalizes Gay Marriage

Reports: Reagan Didn’t Do It

Reports: Dr. George Tiller Didn’t Have to Die

Reports: Fighting Crime by Reforming Juvenile Hall

Truthdig Podcast: Fighting Crime by Reforming Juvenile Hall

Ear to the Ground: Al Gore Puts On His Capitalist Cap

Ear to the Ground: Bush Defends Torture

Reports: Hung Up on Race

Reports: A Wise Person for the Court

Reports: Why Obama’s Court Pick Is Already a Winner

Reports: Sotomayor Is No Leftist

Reports: A Justice for Us All

Ear to the Ground: Fight for Gay Marriage Goes Federal

Reports: ‘Clean’ Energy and Poisoned Water

Reports: Obama and the Limits of Mastery

Reports: Packing Heat in the Parks

Reports: Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’

Reports: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on America’s Culture of Punishment

Reports: Torture Is a Crime, and Crimes Demand Prosecution

Ear to the Ground: Holder Says He Will Pursue Torture Wrongdoing

Reports: Stop Thinking About Yesterday’s Health Care Debate

Reports: Sexting—and Common Sense

Reports: Torturers Should Be Punished

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Ear to the Ground: Obama: Justice Could Prosecute Torture Lawyers

Reports: Bybee Must Go

Reports: Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him?

Cartoons: Doing Nothing

Reports: Who Will Face Down the Gun Lobby?

Reports: Up, Up and Away: The West’s Hysterical Reaction to North Korea

Reports: Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Reports: A Strange Dual Citizenship

Reports: Armey’s Tea Party Army

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Women Protest Against—and for—‘Rape’ Law

Reports: Israel’s Racist in Chief

Ear to the Ground: What You Dig

Reports: Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

Reports: The Father of Guantanamo

Reports: Taliban, the Sequel

Reports: Obama: The Extremists’ Nightmare

Reports: U.S. Muslims Still Under Siege

A/V Booth: Veteran Regulator Calls Geithner a Failure

Reports: Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women

A/V Booth: Colorblind Justice? Well, Not Exactly

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Wants Stevens Conviction, Charges Dropped

Reports: Where’s the Outrage Over Workers Getting the Shaft?

Reports: Obstruction of Justice

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on ‘The Tyranny of Dead Ideas’

Reports: Inside Bush’s War on Birth Control

Reports: A Government of Men, Not Laws

Ear to the Ground: Go Ahead and Sue

Ear to the Ground: Bernie Sanders Wants Answers, Writes Legislation to Get Them

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Reports: Toxins ’R’ Us

A/V Booth: Obama: Let’s Get to Work

Reports: Stop Explaining, Start Packing

Reports: Jailing Kids for Cash

Ear to the Ground: Rebutting the False Choice Between Security and Freedom

Ear to the Ground: Obama to Take Stimulus-Signing Act to Denver

Ear to the Ground: Justice Ginsburg Has Pancreatic Cancer

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming

Reports: Produce the Note

Arts and Culture: Mark Fischer on Copyright in the Digital Age

Reports: Making Him Do It

Reports: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail

Reports: Obama’s Salvage Operation

Ear to the Ground: Obama Announces New Ethics Rules, Freezes Aides’ Salaries

Ear to the Ground: Israel Admits It ‘May Have Used’ Chemical Weapon

Ear to the Ground: Obama Puts Gitmo Trials on Hold

Ear to the Ground: British Foreign Secretary Criticizes ‘War on Terror’

Reports: So, Just Who Is the Guy Taking the Oath?

Reports: Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

Reports: What Nixon Admitted (and Cheney Won’t)

Reports: Workers Laid Off, Executives Paid Off, Bernard Madoff

Ear to the Ground: America’s Afghan Thugs

Reports: We Told You So

Reports: Settlement Extremists Threaten Israel’s Moral Substance

Reports: Redrawing the Political Map

Ear to the Ground: Brazilian Indians Win Land Battle

Reports: Sweeping Blackwater Under the Rug

Reports: The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff

Reports: Remaking the World in America’s Image

Ear to the Ground: Bush Pardons 14

Ear to the Ground: Howdy, Pardoner

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