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9 Dec 2010, 11:51 am
The Gambian government seeks to stifle political and social dissent through arbitrary arrests of journalists, human rights defenders, political leaders and former security personnel. [read post]
7 Jun 2008, 1:56 pm
White, black, hispanic, Asian homosexuals, under-privileged elementary school dropouts, cat owners, dog owners . . .You get my point.And here is an interesting aside.Though the American Medical Association has been a consistent voice for covering the uninsured, it reserves its political muscle for issues that excite its members. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 9:11 am
Members of opposition political parties are being arrested and convicted without sufficient cause. [read post]
19 Feb 2017, 2:16 pm
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [official website] on Saturday issued a call to Philippine authorities [HRW report] to drop political charges against Senator Leila de Lima, who has spoken against President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 5:09 am
President Obama is being widely praised for the political appeal of his state of the union message, but Reich makes an appealing case for the proposition that there is a better message available which offers a convincing couterstory to the Republican narrative. [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 8:15 am
By Julian Jankowski The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, in her expressed pursuit for a hard Brexit, faces economic, legal, and political challenges in her endeavors to gain a hard Brexit deal. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 6:22 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported [text] on Tuesday that security forces under the administration of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi have systematically used torture methods against political detainees that likely amount to crimes against humanity. [read post]
25 May 2010, 7:58 am
[JURIST] Former Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov [BBC profile] on Monday testified that former president Vladimir Putin [official website; JURIST news archive] ordered the arrest of former oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive] for political reasons. [read post]
5 May 2017, 8:43 am
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order [text, JURIST] Thursday relaxing enforcement of rules prohibiting tax-exempt religious groups from engaging in certain kinds of political speech. [read post]
2 Apr 2015, 11:14 am
[JURIST] The Sudanese government's "crackdown on independent media and civil society" will have a chilling effect on political speech, Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] warned [press release] Thursday. [read post]
23 Apr 2014, 8:38 am
D’Souza, the author of the best-selling 2010 book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” was “selectively targeted for felony prosecution because of his outspoken, vigorous and politically controversial criticism and condemnation” of the president and his administration.Mr. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 8:53 am
The controversy over the Ansari Incident (see Caitlin Flanagan in the Atlantic and Bari Weiss in the Times) seems to me a good example of the preposterous role played by the concept of “consent” in many versions of liberal political theory. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 8:44 am
His topic is political polarization, its causes and effects. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 10:15 am
With the European Games [official website] approaching in Baku, Azerbaijan, this June, human rights groups on Wednesday urged the host nation to release political prisoners held on "trumped up" charges. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 10:14 am
The Supreme Court Shortlist as Political Anthropology [read post]
JAMES TARANTO ON THE POLITICS OF SINGLE MOTHERHOOD: “There is a political as well as an ideological…
18 Jul 2012, 7:00 am
JAMES TARANTO ON THE POLITICS OF SINGLE MOTHERHOOD: “There is a political as well as an ideological aspect to the left’s disparagement of marriage and celebration of single motherhood. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 12:11 pm
On the other hand, it is hard to mark the boundary between contingently thinking in political terms and just thinking in political terms. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 11:13 am
But a strike by 26,000 public school teachers in Chicago that began Monday threatens to place Obama at odds with a critical segment of his political base in the final weeks of a campaign in which he has little margin for error. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 4:24 am
Dahlia Lithwick and Eric Posner question my political science-style account of living constitutionalism, in which popular mobilization and partisan entrenchment in the judiciary play a major role in shaping constitutional change. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 10:31 am
The court said that while the law serves a permissible objective, the line that the state drew in interpreting the word political was so broad as to be unreasonable. [read post]
