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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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Sanitizing the death penalty

by Nat Hentoff -- On April 17, the U.S. Supreme Court – by a walloping 7-to-2 majority in Baze v. Reese – declared constitutional Kentucky's method of death penalty by lethal injection more…

Infanticide candidate for president

by Nat Hentoff -- Sen. Barack Obama I was once strongly inclined to vote for Barack Obama for president (assuming he won his party's nomination) based on his record as a community more…

China's flame of shame

by Nat Hentoff -- At an April 3 press conference in Beijing, International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission Chairman Hein Verbruggen, asked about human rights in China, said comfortably, as reported by Human more…

Imperialists in black robes

by Nat Hentoff -- I dearly wish our Founding Fathers James Madison and Alexander Hamilton had been able to see Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas explain on C-SPAN's "America more…

Terri Schiavo's lifesaving legacy

by Nat Hentoff -- In 2001, the Schindler family – the parents, brother and sister of Terri Schiavo – formed the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation to try to save the life of more…

Barack Obama vs. Terri Schiavo

by Nat Hentoff -- In none of the endless presidential candidates' debates has there been a meaningful discussion of the rights of disabled Americans. However, in the Feb. 26 debate in Cleveland, more…

The torture president

by Nat Hentoff -- Immediately after 9/11, Colin Powell said the terrorists were clearly engaged in a war on civilization itself. Soon after, as secretary of state, he prophetically warned the president more…

John McCain's torture minuet

by Nat Hentoff -- At the White House on March 5, Republican presidential nominee John McCain, glowing with George W. Bush's endorsement of him, said that "on the fundamentals and the principles more…

Gitmo trials fail the Nuremberg test

by Nat Hentoff -- With preparations begun for the first military-commissions trial for detainees at Guantanamo – six "high-level" prisoners who could get the death penalty – the customary attacks on the more…

Genocide Olympics: Bush's moral blindness

by Nat Hentoff -- When Steven Spielberg finally resigned as artistic director to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the filmmaker of "Schindler's List" and the founder of an oral history by more…