2008 Stories by Nat Hentoff
published June 10, 2008
Years before Sudan's General Omar al-Bashir began the genocide in Darfur, I was reporting on another genocide—also conducted by... More >>
published June 3, 2008
While the generals ruling Myanmar were drastically limiting international aid for the many thousands of victims of the recent cyclone, a... More >>
published May 27, 2008
According to official results by Zimbabwe's electoral commission on May 2, the great African liberator, Robert Mugabe, lost that country's... More >>
published May 20, 2008
The Bush administration miserably failed New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but the Jazz Foundation of New York hasn't failed... More >>
published May 13, 2008
Years ago, without a steady gig or paycheck and a first child on the way, I was anxiously freelancing and began to empathize with the common... More >>
published May 6, 2008
I have been intermittently reporting on the NYPD for half a century—sometimes admiringly, as when I spent several weeks with a homicide... More >>
published April 29, 2008
With Michael Bloomberg on the way out and Christine Quinn sinking in an ethical quicksand of her own making, Ray Kelly becomes the leading... More >>
published April 22, 2008
On July 18, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read to a joyous crowd in Boston as bells rang and cannons were discharged. Abigail Adams... More >>
published April 15, 2008
If the deciders at the White House, the Justice Department, and the CIA who are responsible for war crimes ever face the equivalent of the... More >>
published April 8, 2008
As the People's Republic of China was characteristically murdering the people of occupied Tibet, Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, protested... More >>
published April 1, 2008
Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the former much-lauded chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, is... More >>
published March 25, 2008
The late Ala Abu Dhaim was a 25-year-old deliveryman in Jerusalem. A Palestinian Arab with Israeli citizenship, he lived with his family in... More >>
published March 18, 2008
When I was in Israel, reporting for the Voice in the 1980s, I interviewed—and supported—members of Peace Now (Shalom... More >>
published March 11, 2008
On February 13, in a historic vote, the Senate—following the lead of the House—for the first time explicitly prohibited the CIA... More >>
published March 4, 2008
It seems that Barack Obama might read the Voice. In the January 23-29 issue ("Barack's Shining Moment?"), I asked why, in Obama's... More >>
published February 26, 2008
In her State of the City speech on February 12, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn—an undeclared but highly likely contender as our... More >>
published February 19, 2008
The New York Sun—reacting, apparently, to a popular groundswell that somehow escaped my attention—once again urged... More >>
published February 5, 2008
We have a take-charge mayor. And since inspiration seized him about how to protect us from jihadists, he is barreling ahead with a proposal to... More >>
published January 29, 2008
Our humble mayor, Mike Bloomberg, has been basking in the glow of largely unmerited approval around the country, ranging from his purported... More >>
published January 22, 2008
Last April at Drake University Law School in Des Moines, Iowa, a Democratic presidential candidate said of the present incumbent that "by... More >>
published January 15, 2008
The morning after the historical surprise in Iowa, people from all kinds of backgrounds were feeling good about themselves, welcoming the real... More >>
published January 8, 2008
So what was on those videotapes destroyed by the CIA? Let's put a face to it. Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and, after being shot... More >>
published January 1, 2008
In 2002, the year of the now-notorious CIA torture videos filmed in the agency's secret prisons, high-level Justice Department lawyers told... More >>
published January 1, 2008
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