Category: Politics
The Anti-Torture Lobby
by WS Editors | Feb 1, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Legal Affairs1. Amnesty International Amnesty International is engaged in a campaign to pressure President Obama to close the U.S. prison at Guantánamo. 2. National Religious Campaign Against Torture NRCAT is lobbying the White House and Congress to create an independent commission of inquiry on torture. 3. Open Society Justice Initiative The Justice Initiative has sued Romania […]
Voting Rights on the Chopping Block
by Benjamin Todd Jealous | Feb 1, 2013 | PoliticsIn late February, the United States Supreme Court will review Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The decision by these nine justices could uphold generations of voting rights protections, or, adversely, this Court—by modifying or rejecting Section 5—could allow many of the racially discriminatory voting practices blocked in 2012 to re-emerge. While we were […]
American Torturers on Trial, But Not in the United States
by James A. Goldston | Feb 1, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityAlmost a decade after he was kidnapped and forcibly disappeared by Macedonian officials acting at the behest of the CIA, Khaled El-Masri has finally secured a measure of redress. After years of denial in Skopje (capital of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), stonewalling in Berlin and silence in Washington, the European Court of Human […]
The Supreme Court vs. Black Voters in Alabama
by Lou Dubose | Feb 1, 2013 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsIn July 2007, George W. Bush invited the families of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks to the White House Rose Garden signing of the Voting Rights Act. The 25-year extension of civil rights legislation enacted in 1965 passed by a 98-0 vote in the Senate and by 390-33 in the […]
Preaching to the Unconverted
by WS Editors | Feb 1, 2013 | Politics“We set up phone banks and called every woman voter and ranked them according to their degree of pro-choice- ness, one to nine. Then we targeted the ones we could get to vote on the issue. We had 63 percent of the Republican women who favored legal abortion say that they would abandon DioGuardi and […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety
Editor’s Picks
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Endgame: The Risk of a Trump Coup and How to Prevent It
By Jonathan Winer
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Electoral Helter-Skelter in 2024
By Mark Medish and Joel McCleary
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By Anthony Barnett
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Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy
By Hamilton Fish
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God and QR Codes for Trump; The Courage Tour Goes to Michigan
By Anne Nelson
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Project 2025: The Latest Plot Against America
By Anne Nelson