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Articles Written by: BENJAMIN WITTES
“Good morning Endesa,” the bright-yellow sign read. “If you’re really concerned about your children’s children, don’t destroy Patagonia.”
The message, written in the form of a letter and signed “Sincerely, Greenpeace,” echoes an Endesa ad ...
From BENJAMIN WITTE, EcoEarth News, 21 Jul 2008
The move came in response to an official complaint filed last month by opponents of the large-scale dam project, which is slated for Region XI’s Baker and Pascua Rivers (PT, May 19). Fourteen members of Congress’ so-called “Green Bench,” a loose ...
From BENJAMIN WITTE, EcoEarth News, 20 Jun 2008
Yes, habeas corpus has been grandly re-established at Guantanamo. But, as the court majority made clear in this brief passage, that does not mean the government is holding a single person illegally at the base. Nor did the court have a whole lot to say ...
Also on
TNR.com today: E.J.
Graff suggests that Democrats who fear the political fallout of the gay marriage
ruling are wrong-headed--from both an ethical and an electoral standpoint.
"Barack Obama has always believed that same-sex couples should ...
From BENJAMIN WITTES, The New Republic, 20 May 2008
Accorsi approached the Comptroller – a government supervisory institution – in name of the so-called “Green Bench,” a group of pro-environment members of Congress that includes Sen. Alejandro Navarro of the Socialist Party and Sen. Guido Girardi ...
From BENJAMIN WITTE, EcoEarth News, 19 May 2008
The Supreme Court last week gave the country an object lesson in the
absurdity of the Eighth
Amendment--at least, as it is currently understood
by the justices. On a single day, it handed down a decision upholding
as constitutional the specific mixture ...
From BENJAMIN WITTES, The New Republic, 28 Apr 2008
The disclosure of the former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo's "torture memo" this week was, in most senses, an exercise less in news than in archaeology. The public has long known the memo existed. And it has also known, in broad strokes, what it ...
From BENJAMIN WITTES, The New Republic, 5 Apr 2008
One thing seemed clear from Tuesday's Supreme Court oral
arguments in District of Columbia v.
Heller: The justices are poised to recognize that the Second Amendment
confers on individual Americans the right to own guns. The court's
conservatives--save ...
From BENJAMIN WITTES, The New Republic, 21 Mar 2008
At long last, one way or another we're about to learn a
great deal about military commissions. The charges prosecutors filed Monday against
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other alleged September 11 conspirators cannot
proceed credibly to trial in ...
From BENJAMIN WITTES, The New Republic, 14 Feb 2008
Attorney General Michael Mukasey frustrated Democrats yesterday when he refused, again, to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee whether water-boarding counts as torture or is otherwise prohibited by law. At the committee hearing, he declared the ...
From BENJAMIN WITTES, The New Republic, 31 Jan 2008