Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. October 6, 2009. The newly appointed Supreme Court justice asked more questions in one session than Clarence Thomas has asked over the course of several years.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. August 5, 2009. Veterans are more likely to get longer sentences than non-veterans for the same crime. How can we treat returning soldiers so badly?
George Lakoff, AlterNet. June 1, 2009. Conservatives are trying to redefine empathy as irrational personal feeling. In fact, empathy is the basis of our democracy and must be defended.
Gail McGowan Mellor, Women's Media Center. May 20, 2009. Four U.S. soldiers have been convicted for the brutal killing of Abeer al-Janabi and her family -- and now the full story is public.
Nezua, The Media Consortium AlterNet: Immigration. May 14, 2009. Enforcement policies are becoming a threat, not only to immigrants, but the country at large.
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. April 25, 2009. Liberals and conservatives have highly different moral priorities. And we have to understand them if we want to accomplish anything.
Willam Fisher, IPS News. April 20, 2009. Spanish law gives its courts jurisdiction beyond borders in cases of torture, based on a doctrine known as universal justice.
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. April 7, 2009. Reversing this internal mindset of "ends justifies the means" will not be easy after years of it being shoved into place.
Cynthia Boaz, TruthOut.org. February 26, 2009. Directly punishing their predecessors is something done by tyrants in authoritarian regimes, not by democratic leaders in an open society.
Laura Hanna, Gavin Browning, The Nation AlterNet: Water. February 9, 2009. In a perfect world, wealth -- be it money, ideas or access to natural resources -- belongs to all of us.
Laila Al-Arian, AlterNet. November 26, 2008. A Texas jury's guilty decision in the nation's largest terrorism financing trial since 9/11 reawakens the injustices of Bush's War on Terror.
Ian Welsh, Firedoglake AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 14, 2008. We cannot just ignore Bush's crimes and incompetence because Obama got elected.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: Video. February 11, 2008. The victim was kept in a cell for six hours, was not allowed to make a phone call or to get medical assistance for cuts and bruises she received.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. December 4, 2007. By imposing tougher penalties on those who break the law, we're becoming a society that is cutting off its nose to spite its face.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. September 24, 2007. You can't claim the moral high ground in the struggle for racial justice with a beat-up white kid at the bottom of the pile.
Sally Kohn, AlterNet. September 20, 2007. Why is it that mainstream white media and white folks in general are so obsessed (once again) with OJ's guilt but paying little or no attention to the innocence of the Jena Six?
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. September 18, 2007. It is time we examine why a black teen is six times more likely to be tried and sentenced to prison than a young white, even when the crimes are similar.
James Rucker, Color of Change. August 8, 2007. You can help six youth in Louisiana who have been targeted by racial discrimination that could put them behind bars for decades.
Shahid Buttar, AlterNet. July 20, 2007. Right before the public kicked out the GOP in the 2006 elections, the Republicans succeeded in passing a law that could keep prisoners in the "war on terror" from ever facing a fair trial. It's time to rescind that law.
