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Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned authority on the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights and author of many books, including "The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance."
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Obama's secret law in the Patriot Act

by Nat Hentoff -- When Congress rushed to pass the Patriot Act on Oct. 21, 2001, I reported in The Village Voice: "This will be one of our severest tests yet to more…

Supreme Court suspends 4th Amendment

by Nat Hentoff -- When I speak to classes, from fifth-graders to college students, about the Constitution, I tell them stories of how we acquired these fundamental individual liberties and what it more…

4th Amendment hangs by a thread

by Nat Hentoff -- Before the American Revolution, when we were King George III's colonists, his customs officers and soldiers, writing general warrants (writes of assistance) all by themselves, barged into offices more…

Our Constitution: How many of us know it?

by Nat Hentoff -- Thomas Jefferson often insisted that the ultimate guardians of our rights and liberties are We the People. But when many Americans are largely ignorant of the Constitution, an more…

Free press in a future Palestinian state?

by Nat Hentoff -- As Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas presses for the U.N. Security Council to recognize, and therefore establish, a new Palestinian state in September, neither he nor the growing more…

Can the Constitution be saved?

by Nat Hentoff -- The horrors of 9/11 created many American widows. Among them is Kristen Breitweiser, a lawyer who also mourns "The Sad Defeat of our Constitution" (Huffington Post, April 4) more…

Real justice comes from real courts

by Nat Hentoff -- When President Obama and Eric Holder succumbed to fierce bipartisan resistance to trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other charged defendants – for the 9/11 massacre of Americans more…

Legacy of broadcast journalism giant continues

by Nat Hentoff -- Although Fred Friendly, who died in 1998, has remained very well-known in the world of radio, television and First Amendment studies, he also briefly became a movie marquee more…

When the Constitution came alive on TV

by Nat Hentoff -- The most valuable, quintessential American television I have ever seen began in 1983 with the 13-part "The Constitution – That Delicate Balance" on PBS. I watched, enthralled during more…

Republicans' assault on NPR and PBS

by Nat Hentoff -- As a continuous critic of the Obama administration, I have been hoping for remediation from congressional Republicans. They've done well exposing the dangers to all of us of more…