Article: A Matter of Life & Death: Advocates in New York Respond to Medical Repatriation
On the afternoon of February 28, 2000, Luis Alberto Jiménez was returning home from work when he was hit by […]
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TSA Rolling Out Less Pornographic Scanners
This comic is part of a collection of comedic takes on airport security accompanying MSNBC’s announcement of new scanners to
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Eliminating the rape kit backlog, but at what price?
Last year saw unprecedented advocacy for policy change regarding the tens of thousands of untested sexual assault evidence collection kits
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[Updated] Is the Internet a Basic Human Right?
Update: If you thought democracies didn’t need to answer this question, check out this post on the “Protect Cyberspace as
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Massachusetts Foreclosure Decision Rattles Mortgage Securitization Industry
Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court voided multiple foreclosures by US Bancorp and Wells Fargo, holding that because
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Wyoming House Passes Anti-Gay Marriage Bill
Wyoming law currently states that “All marriage contracts which are valid by the laws of the country in which contracted
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Dearth of Death Penalty Drug Buys Time for Convicts
Hospira, the Illinois-based company that manufactures sodium thiopental, will no longer manufacture the drug after Italy expressed concerns over the
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Would the Gun Lobby let Loughner plead insanity?
As Alan Dershowitz points out in his recent New York Times Op Ed, there has been an interesting dichotomy in
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Iowa House Tries to Invalidate Iowa Same-Sex Marriages
After three Iowa State Supreme Court justices were removed from office last November (which was due in large part to
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ScotusBlog covers the coverage of Scalia
No need to rewrite an already good post. ScotusBlog provides links to all kinds of coverage of the goings-on with
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Essay: is WikiLeaks more dangerous than the alternative?
Everyone has commented on the leaks from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to Saturday Night Live but it was Ron Paul, Texas Congressman, who finally seemed to ask a poignant question several days ago, “[Which events caused more deaths,] lying us into war, or the release of the WikiLeaks papers?”