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2008 Stories by Nat Hentoff

• A Third Sudanese Genocide: General al-Bashir's Final Solution

  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 >>

• Pacifism Fails in the Face of Sovereign Evil

  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 >>

• Zimbabwe's Slow-Motion Horror Show

  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 >>

• The Beating Heart of Jazz

  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 >>

• Keeping Jazz Makers Alive

  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 >>

• The NYPD's Secret Crusade Against Marijuana Furthers a Racist Agenda

  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 >>

• Ray Kelly for Mayor? A Voters' Guide

  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 >>

• Bush's Gitmo Justice Creates a Legal Black Hole

  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 >>

• Our Very Own Axis of Evil in Guantánamo

  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 >>

• China's Blood-Splattered Olympics

  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 >>

• Michael Mukasey and the Ghost of Alberto Gonzales

  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 >>

• Will the Latest Jerusalem Bloodshed Be Followed By Talks or Intifada?

  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 >>

• The Cold, Cold Heart of Hamas

  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 >>

• McCain Retreats on Terror

  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 >>

• Barack Obama, Read This Book!

  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 >>

• Will Christine Quinn Stand Up to Commissioner Kelly?

  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 >>

• President Bloomberg? Not This Bad Apple

  published February 19, 2008

  The New York Sun—reacting, apparently, to a popular groundswell that somehow escaped my attention—once again urged... More >>

• The Long Swab of the Law

  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 >>

• Bloomberg Wants to Get in Your Genes

  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 >>

• Getting Our Reputation Back

  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 >>

• Is Obama's Constitution Strong Enough?

  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 >>

• What the CIA Had to Destroy

  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 >>

• Waterboarding the White House

  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 >>

• Nat Hentoff's Greatest Hits

  published January 1, 2008

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