• 'Too Little Justice': Misdemeanor Defendants in the US
    Mar 22, 2013
    Indigent defendants in Midland, Texas are not receiving proper instructions regarding their right to counsel, a problem leading to uneducated plea bargains.
  • Lawmakers Must Reevaluate Immigration Detention System
    Mar 19, 2013
    Too many immigrants have been detained unnecessarily, at significant cost to the U.S. taxpayer.
  • Military commissions don't give victims justice
    Mar 18, 2013
    More than a decade after the attack on the USS Cole, the victims and family members of those lost in the attack are still waiting for justice.
  • Leaning In, and Sometimes Falling Over the Edge
    Mar 18, 2013
    Kimberly N. "leaned in" to her career for years. As a vice president of a large charitable organization, she earned high praise and enjoyed her work. When Kimberley got pregnant, she negotiated a six-week maternity leave, and looked forward to resuming work. Things did not go according to plan.
  • What Rules Should Govern US Drone Attacks?
    Mar 11, 2013
  • Listening In
    Feb 21, 2013
    New revelations at Guantánamo show the walls have ears, and justice is being made a mockery.
  • Don’t Overlook Domestic Violence
    Feb 18, 2013
    According to December 2011 figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in four women in the U.S. has been a victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in her lifetime. Nearly one in five has been raped.
  • Enhance This Interrogation
    Feb 6, 2013
    The Senate confirmation hearings need to get to the bottom of the truth about CIA chief nominee John Brennan.
  • Why Immigration Reform Will Strengthen American Communities
    Feb 4, 2013
    Perhaps one of the greatest defects in the U.S. immigration system, including Alabama's 2011 law, is the failure to recognize the profound ties millions of unauthorized immigrants have to U.S. citizens through family, work, and community.
  • Making sure the D.C. police take sex assault seriously
    Jan 25, 2013
    In spring 2011, a federal government employee in her 30s was sexually assaulted in the District by a man she met on an Internet dating site. At Washington Hospital Center, where she went for a forensic exam so medical personnel could collect evidence from her body, a female detective from the Sexual Assault Unit of the city’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) questioned the woman for three hours, interrupting her frequently in a manner — as the woman saw it — meant to discourage her from reporting the assault and to minimize the seriousness of what had happened to her.