Despite being exonerated, only five of twenty-two Chinese Uighurs at Guantánamo were released — to Albania. The rest remain at a supermax prison.
Rights & Liberties
Katrina’s Hidden Race War
In post-Katrina New Orleans, armed white residents, shouting racial epithets, opened fire on passersby, shooting at least eleven African Americans seeking refuge.
Body of Evidence
Did the New Orleans police play a role in the grisly death of Henry Glover? Eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence leads straight to NOPD personnel.
Victims and Vigilantes
Victims of post-Katrina violence at the hands of white vigilantes describe their experiences in this video.
Obama’s big win obscured ongoing voting problems
Just because it wasn’t a nightmare scenario like the 2000 Florida recount doesn’t mean there weren’t systemic problems on voting day.
Justice, Bush-Style
GOP loyalists have taken over the Justice Department and retooled the civil rights division as a political weapon.
How Sarah Palin Excluded African Americans in Alaska
Evidence that Sarah Palin avoided hiring minority staffers and shut out black business owners from Alaska’s oil board
Collateral Damage
Hedges and Al-Arian’s investigation into U.S. atrocities in Iraq becomes a full-length book from Nation Books.
Famous Are the Flowers
Inside the fierce – if hidden – struggle for sovereignty in Hawaii.
Pity the Man
In a new gambit to further restrict women’s reproductive rights, pro-lifers invent “Post-Abortion Syndrome” for men.
The Legal Muscle Leading the Fight to End the Separation of Church and State
The ADF has seized on “viewpoint discrimination” to put the gay rights movement in its cross hairs.
Passive Resisters
In this sidebar to her story on taser-related deaths, Talvi shows how Taser’s promotional materials demonstrate how to use this “less-than-lethal” weapon on nonviolent protesters.
Stunning Revelations: The Untold Story of Taser-Related Deaths
There have been 200 Taser-related deaths from 2001 to 2006, leading critics to call for better training and evaluation in their use.
Cult of Character
The “secular” Character Training Institute is a front for evangelist Bill Gothard’s reconstructionist Christian vision, trying to change America one school, one police force, one city at a time.
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The Shame of our Nursing Homes
While there’s millions in the nursing home industry for investors, there’s only misery for the elderly who live in the homes.