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TNR Debate: Too Much Transparency? (Part III)
Net Cemetery
Network neutrality--that’s now the official policy of the Obama administration, announced last month by the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Julius Genachowski. It’s a development that could be more significant to the future of free speech than any milestone since the Supreme Court’s decision in New York Times v. Sullivan in 1964. READ MORE >>
Misplayed
Sotto Voce
A tip from an informant led Detective Amando Rodriguez and Sergeant Diane Contreras to the stash house--actually a New York City apartment--which they had good reason to think contained a substantial haul of drugs. The suspicion was confirmed when they busted a man leaving the building with a kilo of cocaine in a black bag. The officers entered the building to stake out the apartment. That's when the carryout delivery woman arrived with an order for the stash house. Worried that she might inadvertently draw attention to their presence, the cops made a hasty decision to enlist her help. READ MORE >>
DISPUTATIONS: Stuck Between Branches
Good Wood
This piece is from our archives: It was published on May 20, 2009. READ MORE >>
The Conciliator
In March, 2008, Martha Nussbaum, a law professor at the University of Chicago, traveled with Judge Diane Wood to a conference in India. The topic was affirmative action in higher education, and before the conference began, they went to Kolkata to meet women leaders who were gathered to talk about how women should claim their legal rights. “Diane borrowed half of my Indian wardrobe and came in like an Indian woman,” Nussbaum recalls. READ MORE >>
Truth or Dare
BARACK OBAMA is trying to split the difference on torture. He wants to move forward—no messy dwelling on the Bush-Cheney era—except that he’ll look backward if forced. There will be no independent commission to hold top-ranking officials politically accountable. But, if Attorney General Eric Holder wants to prosecute the Bush lawyers who defended the legality of waterboarding—John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and Steven Bradbury—well, the president won’t stand in the way. READ MORE >>
More Sotomayor
I’ve just returned from London to find that my piece on Sonia Sotomayor has provoked an energetic response in the blogosphere. READ MORE >>
