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Lying and Conscience
Prisoner Rights and Capital Punishment
Various Personal Rights
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Lying and Conscience 

2010

Ethics angle missing in financial crisis debate

2009

Revisiting a Fed Waltz With A.I.G. 
Goldman’s Non-Apology 
Hamas Objects to Possible Lessons on Holocaust in U.N.-Run Schools in Gaza
More high-tech cheating - and rationalizing 
The End of Philosophy 
Why Obama Is Right About Inequality 
President Obama’s Budget: Some Honesty About Taxes — Finally 
OTS Ignored Warnings on IndyMac, Report Finds 
End of an era for the Amazon's turbulent priests 
Hard Truths at the Outset 
Reporting in Gaza: Striving for Fairness 
Meet Lady Subprime

2008

The Madoff Economy 
CIA Misled Congress, Justice Dept. Over 2001 Incident, Probe Finds 
Psychology and Torture 
Agencies Rated on Scientific Candor 
Why How Matters 
The Corporate Crisis Last Time 
Economic slump: Ethics loom large
Malwebolence: The Trolls Among Us 
The Culture of Debt  

Prisoner Rights, Torture, and Capital Punishment

The Torture Lawyers 
Report Faults 2 Authors of Bush Terror Memos 
Kids in Crisis (Behind Bars) 
Torture’s Loopholes 
Yes, It Was Torture, and Illegal 

2009

Justices Weigh Life in Prison for Youths Who Never Killed 
High Cost of Death Row 
Fear was no excuse to condone torture 
Justice Delayed 
What Torture Never Told Us 
Dick Cheney’s Version 
An Unfit Judge 
Priority Test: Health Care or Prisons? 
U.S. Lawyers Agreed on the Legality of Brutal Tactic 
The Real Path to Security 
When Israel Confronted and Rejected Torture 
Banning Torture: On Higher Ground, but Not Safer 
The Banality of Bush White House Evil 
The Accountability Question: The right way to deal with torture's legacy 
Torture: In Obama's Inner Circle, Debate Over Memos' Release Was Intense 
A Dubious C.I.A. Shortcut 
My Tortured Decision 
In the Spirit of Openness 
Report Gives New Detail on Approval of Brutal Techniques 
Memo Says Prisoner Was Waterboarded 183 Times  
Rights Advocates Cheer Fujimori Verdict 
Judge Rules Some Prisoners at Bagram Have Right of Habeas Corpus 
Reviewing Criminal Justice 
Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots 
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson bans death penalty 
Tales From Torture’s Dark World 
Citing Cost, States Consider End to Death Penalty 
Crime Scene Imperfections 
Supreme Court Steps Closer to Repeal of Evidence Ruling 
Putting Torture Behind Us 
Rulings of Improper Detentions as the Bush Era Closes 
Detainee Was Tortured, a Bush Official Confirms 
Bush's Tortured Morality 
Sen. Webb’s Call for Prison Reform 

2008

The Torture Report 
With Abbas's clampdown in Palestine, reports of torture grow 
The Price of Our Good Name: Closing Guantánamo  
Citing Workload, Public Lawyers Reject New Cases 
CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos 
Torture: Chinese Techniques Used in Guantánamo Training  
The Murky Evidence for and Against Deterrence 
Anger and Restraint: Death Penalty US Supreme Court Decision 
All Too Human: Victims of Torture  
Mexico asks World Court to halt U.S. executions 
Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts
Judge Tells Ohio to Change Executions

Various Personal Rights

2010 

2009

U.S. May Be Open to Asylum for Spouse Abuse 
Animal Cruelty and Free Speech 
Debit Card Trap 
For Afghan Women, Rights Again at Risk 
Breaking the Bonds of Slavery in Mauritania 
Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? 
A Hate Crime Occurs Every Hour in U.S. – Report 
State of Shame 
Faith Groups Increasingly Lose Gay Rights Fights 
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act 
Gay but Equal? 
A Sense of Who We Are: Rights for Illegal Immigrants

2008

In Togo, a 10-Year-Old's Muted Cry: 'I Couldn't Take Any More' 
Iraqi Women, Fighting for a Voice 
Moving forward together 
Protecting the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants 
Court Rules Niger Failed by Allowing Girl’s Slavery 

Rule of Law

2009

Protect the Farm, Tax the Manor 
A Gift to Credit Card Companies 
Another Round of Regulatory Reform 
Where Credit Isn’t Due 
On Election Day, a win for government 
Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast 
New York State Government is Corrupt 
To Beat the Taliban, Fight From Afar 
A Vigorous Push From Federal Regulators 
Wrong Paths to Immigration Reform 
Salvaging Immigration Detention 
An Incomplete State Secrets Fix 
The Rights of Corporations 
Freedom of the Press 
Justice in Gaza 
Afghanistan’s Other Front 
To Save Afghanistan, Look to Its Past 
The Madoff Files: A Chronicle of SEC Failure 
A ‘Little Judge’ Who Rejects Foreclosures, Brooklyn Style 
All the President’s Zombies 
It's Time to Legalize Drugs 
Green Shoots in Palestine II 
Obama’s Embrace of a Bush Tactic Riles Congress 
Settlement Foes Take Fight to Israel's High Court 
Budgets by the People, for the People 
Of Banks and Bonuses 
Netanyahu's Settlement Smoke Screens 
Putting New York Back Together 
Peaceful Evolution Angst 
U.S. Congress Pressed to Repeal 'Racist' Law 
Indian Dalits Face Attacks, Intimidation in Polls 
Is Rape Serious? 
Fund Government With Dirty Money 
What Happened to the Ban on Assault Weapons? 
Money for Nothing: Compensation for Bankers 
Holding Up the Housing Recovery 
Hamas's Bloody Hands 
The Free World Bars Free Speech 
Predatory Brokers 
The Guns of Spring 
Mining Companies 'Stealing Millions' from Africa by not Paying Taxes 
We’re Not the Boss of AIG: The Need for Federal Law
The Wealth Gap Gets Wider 
Mr. Obama and the Rule of Law 
Human Trafficking 'Set to Rise' in Eastern Europe 
Following the A.I.G. Money 
Two Americas, Two Tax Codes 
Filibusters: The Senate’s Self-Inflicted Wound 
After Losses, a Move to Reclaim Executives’ Pay 
How to Lift a Falling Economy 
Arpaio’s America: Mistreatment of Illegal Immigrants  
Obama and the Expansion of Possibility
U.S. gets weak marks on global relations: poll 
Bailout Is a Windfall to Banks, if Not to Borrowers 
Closing Guantánamo 
Obama Adviser Urges More Rigorous Global Financial Regulation 
Forgive and Forget? The President Should Defend the Constitution  
Editor's Killing Underscores Perils of Reporting in Sri Lanka
Recession, Taxes and Mr. Obama 
The End of the Financial World as We Know It 
Four Ways for Detroit to Save Itself 

2008

Peace for the Mideast 
AP study finds $1.6B went to bailed-out bank execs 
White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire 
Executive Pay 
Hope Amid the Gloom 
Defending a Pardon, Protecting His Power 
From One Footnote, a Debate Over the Tangles of Law, Science and Money 
Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer 
Britain Grapples With Role for Islamic Justice 
Administration Moves to Protect Key Appointees 
Obama Lays Out Ethics Rules for Transition 
A Quiet Windfall For U.S. Banks 
Money Really Is Fungible: Fair Wages for Bankers 
Mortgage Justice Is Blind 
Banks Mine Data and Woo Troubled Borrowers 
US Agencies Counted Big Firms As Small 
The Bailout Should Suspend Paying Dividends 
Shouldn’t We Rescue Housing? 
Last-Minute Mischief 
What Went Wrong
W. Bank Settlers' Rage Grows 
Mr. McCain's Mortgage Offer 
It's Only Bankruptcy 
U.S. May Take Ownership Stake in Banks 
Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy 
SEC ’04 Rule Let Banks Pile Up New Debt 
Mexican Americans Denied Passports 
Don’t Blame the New Deal

When Judges Make Foreign Policy 
A Peace From the Bottom Up 
Reckless? You’re in Luck
Wall Street’s Next Big Problem
Wall Street Casualties
How Washington Failed to Rein In Fannie, Freddie

UN Treaties

2010

2009

U.N. Rights Council Endorses Gaza Report  
At 60, Geneva Conventions Still Lack Teeth 
Laws, Not Words, Urged on Indigenous Rights Day 
The Test Ban Treaty 
A Table for Tyrants 

War

2009

Of Fruit Flies and Drones 
For Every Iraqi Party, an Army of Its Own 
What Failure in Afghanistan? 
Patriot Act Excesses 
The Fierce Urgency of Peace 
Watershed Moment on Nuclear Arms 
Israeli Separation Barrier: Along and in the Occupied West Bank 
A Religious War in Israel’s Army 
Israeli soldiers break ranks over Gaza war 
U.S. Bans Cluster Bomb Exports 
How to Leave Afghanistan 
Justices Erase Ruling That Allowed a Detention 
IDF probe: Cannot defend destruction of Gaza homes 
Outcry Erupts Over Reports That Israel Used Phosphorus Arms on Gazans
Tribal Rivalries Persist as Iraqis Seek Local Posts in Upcoming Election 
Torture Remarks May Force Hand of New Administration 
Report Details Iraq Contract Failures 
Bribes Corrode Afghans’ Trust in Government 

2008

At Least Some Accountability 
I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq 
Gulf War Illness Is Real, Debilitating: Study 
Gates Gives Rationale for Expanded Deterrence 
Bush Seeks to Affirm a Continuing War on Terror 
In US: Put War Powers Back Where They Belong 
Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR Stir

The Justices' Refrain 
Interrogation for Profit