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Voting Rights of Thousands of Purged Colorado Voters Restored

Posted on Oct 30, 2008

"Thousands of Colorado voters illegally purged from the registration lists will have their votes counted."

How Phone Companies Team Up With Bush to Spy On You

Posted on Aug 14, 2007

Onnesha Roychoudhuri: A new investigative piece explores American telecoms complicity with the Bush administration’s data mining program.

Making Justice Moot

Posted on May 6, 2006

The Bush administration releases Guantanamo detainees -- just in time to keep their case from the Supreme Court.

Dirty words in politics

Posted on May 5, 2006

A proposal to banish the f-word (freedom) and the s-word (security) from political campaigns.

Enron still wreaking havoc

Posted on May 3, 2006

Even with Lay and Skilling standing trial, Enron creditors and lobbyists are working hard to cover up evidence and exploit consumers.

Guantanamo detainees will be released...

Posted on May 2, 2006

just as soon as we can be sure their home countries won't abuse them the way we do.

Bush can disobey 750 laws

Posted on May 1, 2006

In his unending quest for an imperial presidency, Bush regularly decides to ignore laws he doesn't like.

Following the "real news"

Posted on Apr 25, 2006

Have journalists become a passive audience to this president's preoccupations?

New blood in the White House...

Posted on Apr 19, 2006

or just a game of musical chairs?

Easter with the LGBT community

Posted on Apr 18, 2006

An out-of-culture experience.

Putting the toothpaste back in the tube

Posted on Apr 13, 2006

Secret agents at the National Archive are busy reclassifying history.

Skilling takes the stand...

Posted on Apr 12, 2006

...and tells jurors of his humble intentions to turn Enron into the "company of the 21st century."

A supposedly funny thing...

Posted on Apr 10, 2006

President Bush thanks first-year grad student for a tip-off on our flawed military strategy.

Of the Iraq war and "tactical errors"

Posted on Apr 6, 2006

Rice and Rumsfeld argue. figuratively.

The update on Padilla

Posted on Apr 5, 2006

A critical precedent still delayed as the DoJ takes the courts for a ride…

The endurance of impermanence

Posted on Apr 4, 2006

Military bases, once built, just have a habit of sticking around...

Democrats on "Real Security"

Posted on Mar 30, 2006

Real disappointing.

Scalia thinks you should f**k off…

Posted on Mar 29, 2006

...and leave him to his temperate and impartial judicial decisions

The Enron show: Courtroom update

Posted on Mar 28, 2006

A brief look at some of the hi (and low) jinks of the testimony thus far

Encyclopaedia Britannica to the masses:

Posted on Mar 24, 2006

You can't possibly be as smart as us.

The legalese of betrayal

Posted on Mar 22, 2006

No matter the terminology we use, Americans understand when they're being misled.

Looking back, moving forward

Posted on Mar 19, 2006

The implications of a wartime president who understands little about war

The circular poetry of executive power

Posted on Mar 17, 2006

Putting an end to illegal conduct...by making it legal

Justice without the DoJ?

Posted on Mar 16, 2006

Whistleblowers win landmark contractor corruption case -- despite the government's refusal to get involved.

Dying for you to listen

Posted on Mar 15, 2006

Guantanamo detainee's suicide note addresses Americans

From Impeachment to … Censure?

Posted on Mar 14, 2006

Feingold's motion to censure the president is a step in the right direction; but it seems like radical times like these call for more radical measures.

The not-so-secret CIA

Posted on Mar 13, 2006

Chicago Tribune introduces the security agency to that new-fangled contraption: the internet.

The liberal phaseout

Posted on Mar 10, 2006

and the return to patriarchy?

Ann Coulter's controversial new book...

Posted on Mar 9, 2006

Untitled

Breaking news: Gonzales on dessert

Posted on Mar 9, 2006

A finger in (almost) every pie...

International Women's Day

Posted on Mar 8, 2006

Finding some constructive discussion...

The reverse Jesus complex

Posted on Mar 2, 2006

Let my people suffer for my sins.

Tracing the port security debate...

Posted on Feb 23, 2006

to its inevitable conclusion.

The New Marriage Contract

Posted on Feb 23, 2006

Of good behavior and "wifely expectations"

Getting a fair trial...

Posted on Feb 22, 2006

...is news today

Enron trial: the drama is back

Posted on Feb 22, 2006

The jury wakes...

Guantanamo: the film and the play

Posted on Feb 21, 2006

An interesing genre that emerges when what we get from the news just doesn't cut it.

More on Executive Order 13292

Posted on Feb 16, 2006

Does Cheney have the authority to de-classify?

Scandal fatigue...

Posted on Feb 14, 2006

and the Vice President that roused us.

Taking the suffering out of Valentine's Day

Posted on Feb 13, 2006

Well, some of it, anyway.

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