Gregory D. Lee : "The transfer of Kuwaiti National Fouad Al Rabiah to his home country is a further attempt by the Obama administration to reduce the number of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay...
Professional Commentary
Nikolas Kondylis : "During the last two days several protests took place in Athens in the anniversary of the death of a young boy who was killed last year. Within the...
Joan Bertin : "Cases involving messages on license plates raise a potpourri of questions with important First Amendment implications. The easiest cases are those in which the government itself creates a plate with a religious...
Dawn Koepke : "After months of debate, the legislature approved a watered-down version of the Corrections budget package aimed at addressing the $1.2 billion unallocated cut to the Department of Corrections provided in the...
Roy Speckhardt : "The American Humanist Association (AHA), along with more than 100 other organizations, has joined in a statement opposing the "defamation of religion" resolution before the United Nations that is being promoted by the...
Susannah Sirkin : "As a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) was alarmed and deeply disappointed by a Department of State spokesperson's pronouncement on November 24 that...
Richard Dieter : "In a rapid sequence of events, the state of Ohio has abandoned its longstanding commitment to the standard method of lethal injection, adopted a new protocol (and even more novel "backup plan")...
Phyllis Gerstenfeld : "This week, the FBI reported a 2% increase in hate crimes in 2008, as compared to the previous year. While hate crimes are an important problem in the...
Volker Huls : "The announcement by the Transitional Federal Government comes at a crucial time when more than ever children's rights are violated in Somalia as a consequence of the ongoing conflict in...
Eugene O'Donnell : "One of the paradoxes of crime reporting is that statistics sometimes decline when there is little expectation that law enforcement will treat a crime report seriously. Thus, the reported crime rate...
