Opinion
Two victories for civil liberties: more to come?
December 8, 2006News Analysis As 2006 winds down, two court victories were racked up for civil liberties against the Bush administration’s authoritarian policies. More such triumphs are likely. In Los Angeles, Ninth District Federal Judge Audrey Collins gave...
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Texas GOP in disarray
December 8, 2006Commentary HOUSTON — In the wild, wild west of Texas politics, Republicans have set a new standard since the November election. In a bizarre twist following Tom DeLay’s reign of terror, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs won a special...
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Sean Bell: What justice requires
December 8, 2006Commentary Fifty bullets. One bullet can kill a person — imagine what 50 did to 21-year-old Sean Bell and his two friends. What happened to these three unarmed young men on Nov. 25 in Queens, N.Y.,...
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Texas GOP in disarray
December 3, 2006Commentary HOUSTON — In the wild, wild west of Texas politics, Republicans have set a new standard since the November election. In a bizarre twist following Tom DeLay’s reign of terror, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs won a special...
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Beyond South Dakota
November 17, 2006With all the attention on Ohio, Virginia, Montana and a few other states, it would be easy to miss something very significant that happened in South Dakota on election night: a victory that just might point...
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