Obama moves deeper into Bush-Cheney dark side

by Nat Hentoff -- Through the years of reporting on how we have become notorious around the world fighting terrorism by torturing suspects in our custody, I was not surprised when in more…

Obama bans war criminals, but not our own

by Nat Hentoff -- By executive order on Aug. 4, President Barack Obama refused entry to the United States of war criminals and human-rights violators (Jurist.org, Aug. 4). He ignored, as he more…

Rick Perry's Texas-sized justice

by Nat Hentoff -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the state legislature have finally recognized – unlike many other U.S. states – that the brutal incarceration of juvenile offenders "too often turns more…

Un-American justice for juveniles

by Nat Hentoff -- Rarely mentioned in Congress, the media or our schools is the alarming violation of the constitutional rights of American juveniles, which spurred, for example, this July 19 editorial more…

U.S. 'black hole' prison in Afghanistan

by Nat Hentoff -- Nearly all the known Republican candidates for the presidency have signed a pledge to assure their voter base that they share common principles ("Signing Away the Right to more…

American torture: Which side are you on?

by Nat Hentoff -- A Wall Street Journal editorial, "Vindicating the CIA" (July 2), praised "Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to pull the plug on the investigation into most CIA interrogations. The more…

Emancipation Day for 'good faith' torturers?

by Nat Hentoff -- Both the Bush-Cheney and Obama administrations have strongly opposed the very idea of a comprehensive independent investigation of CIA "enhanced interrogations" at the agency's secret prisons and during more…

Will Obama honor brave forgotten heroes?

by Nat Hentoff -- How many Americans remember Sgt. Joseph Darby, the soldier, who while serving in Iraq revealed photographs showing other members of his company torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib? As more…

President Allen West in our future?

by Nat Hentoff -- In what the media is touting as a historic event, the Rev. Fred Luter Jr. of New Orleans was recently elected as first vice president of the Southern more…

Post-racial society? Not even close

by Nat Hentoff -- I continue to hear from an ever-growing chorus of fellow journalists and friends that we have become a post-racial society. We have a black president and an increasing more…