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Lying and Conscience
Prisoner Rights and Capital Punishment
Various Personal Rights
Rule of Law
War

2011-2008

Lying and Conscience

2013

JPMorgan Caught in Swirl of Regulatory Woes
How liberal Hollywood fell in love with the CIA
Why Police Lie Under Oath

2012

What’s Wrong With Blasphemy?
Song of the Cheaters
Romney and Ryan’s dangerous tax roadmap
Did Your Brain Make You Do It?
Financial Scandal Scorecard
Compassion Made Easy
Hate Speech and Stolen Valor
Glaxo Agrees to Pay $3 Billion in Fraud Settlement
End of the Affair?
Do as I Do, Not as I Say
Character and Its Discontents
The Big Lie
The Post-Truth Campaign
The power of living in truth
The Reinvention of Political Morality
After shocking incidents, Chinese struggle to instill kindness
Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony
Israel and the Apartheid Slander

Prisoner Rights, Torture, and Capital Punishment

2013

In Place of Compassion, Cruelty
U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes
Immigrants Held in Solitary Cells, Often for Weeks
Control Unit Prisons and Solitary Confinement
A Death Penalty Fight Comes Home
The States Confront Gun Violence
America’s Retreat From the Death Penalty

2012

Californians' support for death penalty goes against trend
Juvenile Injustice
The World’s Next Genocide
Report decries suicides, isolation cells in California prisons
Federal judge blocks restriction of lawyer access to Guantanamo detainees
Libyan Alleges Waterboarding by C.I.A., Report Says
A Spiteful New Policy at Guantánamo Bay
Florida man sees "cruel" face of U.S. justice
A Cruel and Unusual Record
The Torture of Jose Padilla
Little Connecticut’s big message on the death penalty
Exclusive: Senate probe finds little evidence of effective "torture"

Various Personal Rights

2013

BofA cuts 2 million customers loose
Is the N.R.A. Un-American?
The War On Entitlements
‘A Big New Power’
Bleeding the Borrower Dry
Why Gender Equality Stalled
Palestine’s Democratic Deficit
To Kill an American
India’s Speech Impediments
A judicial blow to fundamental rights
The phony pro-gun argument
California unable to disarm 19,700 felons and mentally ill people
Fixing immigration, but not necessarily the Rubio way
On voting, listen to John Lewis
The debacle of gun control
Who Pays for the Right to Bear Arms?
How Many Slaves Work for You?

2012

The Scourge of Concealed Weapons
U.S. should automatically register voters: attorney general
Give Pot a Chance
Going in Circles With Hate Speech
The End of ‘Marriage’
Hate-Speech Hypocrites
In Obama’s Speech, Their Voices
India slowly confronts epidemic of missing children
'Innocence of Muslims' doesn't meet free-speech test
Lawmaker fulfills pledge to late wife with legislative victory
Overt Discrimination in Ohio
Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar
For black Americans, financial damage from subprime implosion is likely to last
California lawmakers pass historic foreclosure protections
Hate Speech and Free Speech, Part Two
The 20 Million
The Harm in Free Speech
Do the Bishops Have a Case Against Obama?
Fannie, Freddie are set to reduce mortgage balances in California
The Lower Floor
Abusing a tax loophole meant to aid the poor
California ethics czar urges disclosure of payments to Web pundits
Catholic Bishops Urge ‘Campaign’ for Religious Freedom
When Poverty Was White
The Reproduction of Privilege
Rick Santorum Isn’t Crazy
Jailed journalists a sign of declining press freedom in Turkey
The Strange Career of Voter Suppression
Whose Conscience?
Facebook Is Using You

Rule of Law

2013

Atlas Shrugged Off Taxes
Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream
1 in 3 adults in parts of L.A. are in U.S. illegally, study finds
Dying for the shirt on your back
Betrayed? Citizen soldiers lose jobs; U.S. government biggest offender
A Disappointing Debut
Where Have All the Jobs Gone?
Predatory Lenders
No Rich Child Left Behind
A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent
Accord reached on farmworkers for immigration bill
Five myths about taxes
White men have much to discuss about mass shootings
Obama's climate agenda may face setbacks in federal court
Most Californians favor citizenship path for illegal immigrants
Stop Stealing From Our Kids
New Apartments Will Complicate Jerusalem Issue
Portland, Ore., Approves Earned Sick Leave Policy
Big Banks Have a Big Problem
Bank Lobbyists Dispute $83 Billion Subsidy. They’re Wrong
On Questioning the Jewish State
Rigging the I.P.O. Game
Offshore Cash Hoard Expands by $183 Billion at Companies
US Stalling Could Force Acceptance of Onerous TPP
Why There's a Bull Market for Stocks and a Bear Market for Workers
Morality and monetary policy
Land of Plenty (of Government)
Stealth Subsidy for Businesses Comes Under Scrutiny
The political clout of the superrich
Major Banks Aid in Payday Loans Banned by States
Despite Aid, Borrowers Still Face Foreclosure
The Second-Mortgage Shell Game
Equal Opportunity, Our National Myth
From the Bottom Up
Raise That Wage
Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding For Republican Dark Money Group
Populists, plutocrats and the GOP sales tax
Banks must probe clients’ motives
The Enlightenment’s ‘Race’ Problem, and Ours
Time to break up the big banks
Short of voters, Republicans gerrymander their way back to power
Israeli and Palestinian textbooks fail balance test, study finds
Timothy Geitner Saved Wall Street, Not the Economy
Doubt Is Cast on Firms Hired to Help Banks
The Hidden Prosperity of the Poor
In Obama’s inauguration speech, a new American religion
Governors Push Bigger Reliance on Sales Taxes
For Obama’s New Term, Start Here
Financial Crisis Suit Suggests Bad Behavior at Morgan Stanley
L.A. teachers union members OK new evaluation method
Inequality Is Holding Back The Recovery
DMV study bolsters driver's license push for illegal immigrants
We must focus on the working poor
The Foreclosure Fiasco
India’s New Focus on Rape Shows Only the Surface of Women’s Perils
Is Delhi So Different From Steubenville?
Special Report: The latest foreclosure horror: the zombie title
Short sales in California surpass sales of foreclosed homes
What next? Reforming corporate taxes and entitlements
Swiss bank Wegelin to close after guilty plea
White House pushes forward on immigration ahead of bigger reform fight
How to Halt the Terrorist Money Train
Controversial Dark Money Group Among Five That Told IRS They Would Stay Out of Politics, Then Didn’t

2012

Let’s Give Up on the Constitution
Stabilization Won’t Save Us
Could A.I.G. Happen Again?
The Unequal State of America: A Reuters series
How to target untaxed wealth
The Freedom of an Armed Society
Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?
Life Without Parole: Four Inmates’ Stories
Too Big to Indict
Sale of last AIG shares brings U.S. bailout profit to $22.7 billion
Those Crazy Indemnity Forms We All Sign
Profiting From a Child’s Illiteracy
Race to the Bottom
Make-or-break moment for middle class
Class Wars of 2012
How the Tax Burden Has Changed
More Chips For Tax Reform
A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy
What a Little Land Can Do
A Failed Experiment
Is Rush Limbaugh’s Country Gone?
Budget Showdown Offers an Opportunity for Progress
Social Change’s Age of Enlightenment
The judicial jihad against the regulatory state
Lawmen Against the Law
It’s time to eliminate anonymous shell companies
Why Let the Rich Hoard All the Toys?
We Are the 96 Percent
California Takes On the Retirement Crisis
Is the payday loan business on the ropes?
Voter Harassment, Circa 2012
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac OK limited principal reduction in California
Breaking Up Banks Is Hard With Traders Hooked on Deposits
Still No Justice for Mortgage Abuses
Can we save American capitalism?
Deportation Nation
Texas redistricting discriminates against minorities, federal court says
UNESCO Urges End to Attacks on Libyan Sufi Mosques, Graves
What I built — with government help
Paul Ryan and the rich man’s burden
The Veil of Opulence
Problems Riddle Moves to Collect Credit Card Debt
Boy Scout files reveal repeat child abuse by sexual predators
Police Protection, Please, for Municipal Bonds
Powerful Shaper of U.S. Rules Quits, With Critics in Wake
Israel’s Settlers Are Here to Stay
Weill Calls for Splitting Up Big Banks
Wall Street Is Too Big to Regulate
U.S. banks haunted by mortgage demons that won't go away
Libor fraud exposes Wall Street’s rotten core
Consumer Watchdog Fines Capital One for Deceptive Credit Card Practices
Trial Judge to Appeals Court: Review Me
Banks, crumbling ethics and a shrinking middle class
Ranks of tight-fisted community banks surge
Wall Street Scandal of All Scandals
Market tantrums should be tamed
Is Our Patriotism Moral?
Rigged Rates, Rigged Markets
A Palestinian Village Tries to Protect a Terraced Ancient Wonder of Agriculture
Suspense Is Over in Madoff Case
The Anti-Union Roberts Court
Prisons, Privitization, Patronage
The Promise of Social Impact Bonds
JP Morgan’s $2 billion experiment with truthiness
An end to ‘too big to fail’
Mining for Influence in Montana
How corporate socialism destroys
Markets and Morals
Regulating Banks
DOJ receives rare praise in financial crisis cases
Are You Safe on That Sofa?
Los Angeles adopts 'responsible banking' ordinance
Behind the Burden of Regulation
Social security is not going broke
Islanders move love and money to their own credit union
How to Get Business to Pay Its Share
Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity
"Corporate Socialism" alive and well in America" (video)
Here’s what Washington really does
Good riddance to the tax refund loan
The High Cost of Gambling on Oil
Obama proposes new rule for immigrant families
Foreclosure Deal Credits Banks for Routine Efforts
The Rich Get Even Richer
Lobbyists, Guns and Money
When Other Voices Are Drowned Out
A Long Road to Regulating Derivatives
Bank Officials Cited in Churn of Foreclosures
Poll: Obama's a Muslim to many GOP voters in Alabama, Mississippi
Insight: "Rock star" scholars a risk for Islamic finance
Fannie and Freddie, penny wise and pound foolish?
Delusions About the Detroit Bailout
Fed's housing blueprint is lost in din of politics
The Big Money Behind State Laws
Attacks on Disclosure
Designing a Fix for Housing
Tales From the Kitchen Table
Spinoza’s Vision of Freedom, and Ours
Romney’s timely proposal to raise and index the minimum wage
Romney’s Tough Immigration View Is at Odds With His Church
Bets Against Homeowners Must Stop, Freddie Mac Was Told

War

2013

With Bags of Cash, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan
America's Other Dark Legacy in Iraq
Is the Estate Tax Doomed?
Ten years after the invasion, did we win the Iraq war?
About Those Black Sites
A Tax to Pay for War
Treat Greed in Africa as a War Crime
I killed people in Afghanistan. Was I right or wrong?

2012

A Cruel and Unusual Record
Veterans and Brain Disease
This War Is Not Over Yet