Email Author Nat Hentoff

2007 Stories by Nat Hentoff

• Boeing's Frequent (Kidnapping) Flyers

  published June 5, 2007

  Ireland is not part of George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil," but the city of Derry's publicly owned airport is seriously considering becoming the first... More >>

• The Torture Doctors

  published May 29, 2007

  For all the press coverage of abuses, including torture, of our "detainees," most Americans are unaware of the partnership between military... More >>

• Dark Secrets at the Front

  published May 22, 2007

  In February 2006, then–Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that our wars against terrorism "could last for decades." Speaking at the... More >>

• China Up Against the Wall

  published May 8, 2007

  In Beijing's Tiananmen Square, a huge clock is counting down the minutes until the start of the Summer Olympic Games on August 8, 2008. With... More >>

• The Genocide Games

  published May 1, 2007

  April 25 was a characteristically murderous day in Darfur. Rwandan Harry Soko, an officer stationed in Sudan with the African Union—whose... More >>

• Blue Wall of Lawlessness

  published April 24, 2007

  During the 1970s, an American hero, the late Democratic senator Frank Church of Idaho, exposed the secret illegal operations of the FBI, the CIA,... More >>

• J. Edgar Bloomberg: COINTELPRO in NY

  published April 17, 2007

  On May 2, 1972, when news suddenly broke that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had died in his sleep, the Savannah (Georgia) Morning... More >>

• In New Orleans, the Saints Are Marching In Again

  published April 10, 2007

  "The Jazz Foundation has been a lifesaver to so many musicians from New Orleans, giving them the opportunity to work and earn money with... More >>

• Saving Free Speech and Jesus

  published April 3, 2007

  "Virtually any student speech that school officials find controversial or offensive hangs in the balance on how the Supreme Court decides... More >>

• Joe Frederick, First Amendment Idol

  published March 27, 2007

  "In our system, students may not be regarded as closed-circuit recipients of only that which the State wishes to communicate. They may not be... More >>

• Ghost Prisons, Ghost Courtrooms

  published March 20, 2007

  "You need to have a president who understands you can't win this war with legal papers. We've got to use every tool at our... More >>

• The New Americanism

  published March 13, 2007

  "[The Military Commissions Act] is unconstitutional. It is un-American. It is designed to insure that the Bush-Cheney administration will... More >>

• Do You Miss Our Constitution?

  published March 6, 2007

  " If Americans win a war [against terrorism] and lose the Constitution, they will have lost everything. " -– Lance... More >>

• Obama: Who Is He Now?

  published February 27, 2007

  "There are those who don't believe in talking about hope. They say, "Well, we want specifics! . . . We've had a lot of plans, Democrats. What... More >>

• The Obama Agenda

  published February 20, 2007

  The right of every family to a decent home . . . The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health . . .... More >>

• Is This America?

  published February 13, 2007

  We knew damn well if Maher Arar went to Syria, he'd be tortured. It's beneath the dignity of this country, a country that has always been a... More >>

• China: Partner in Genocide

  published February 6, 2007

  China has provided Khartoum more than $10 billion in commercial and capital investments over the past decade, even as it has been the regime's... More >>

• Have a Nice Flight

  published January 30, 2007

  On the Boeing 737 Business Jet, Khaled el-Masri said, "all the people were in black clothes and black masks. They put earplugs in my ears and... More >>

• Afraid of Freedom?

  published January 23, 2007

  It is an easy step from restraining the press to making it place the worst actions of government in so favorable a light that we groan under... More >>

• The Enemy Within

  published January 16, 2007

  I can say, as a matter of first principle, that unauthorized disclosure of classified information [by the press] has actually led to the death... More >>

• Our Human Rights Show

  published January 9, 2007

  President Bush remains firmly committed to a foreign policy rooted in human freedom. . . . We join men and women around the world in marking... More >>

• The Black Holocaust

  published January 2, 2007

  It is hard to find a crueler or more duplicitous government than Sudan's. The Economist, December 9, 2006 More >>