Do Outsiders Have Legal Rights?

Adam Hosein Boston Review
The ban raises a fundamental moral question that has recurred throughout U.S. history: what rights, if any, do people considered outsiders have?

The Saintly Dr. O'Leary

Margaret Regan Tucson Weekly
During the contentious 1983 mining strike in Morenci, a part-Irish, part-Yaqui man stood up for the little guy,

2 Federal Judges Rule Against Trump's Latest Travel Ban

ALEXANDER BURNS The New York Times
But in a pointed decision that repeatedly invoked Mr. Trump’s public comments, Judge Derrick K. Watson, of Federal District Court in Honolulu, wrote that a “reasonable, objective observer” would view even the new order as “issued with a purpose to disfavor a particular religion, in spite of its stated, religiously neutral purpose.”

American Eagle

Sam Friedman Portside
What's the future of our environment? A poisonous wasteland, says Sam Friedman, offering a bleak view of what's imminent.

Neil Gorsuch Helped Defend Bush Torture Policies

Charlie Savage The New York Times
After visiting Guantanamo, Judge Gorsuch offered the prison operation commander a glowing review. "Being able to see first hand all that you have managed to accomplish with such a difficult and sensitive mission makes my job of helping explain and defend it before the courts all the easier.”

A Rare Success Against Alzheimer's

Miia Kivipelto, Krister Håkansson Scientific American
A gold-standard clinical trial provides evidence that diet, exercise and an active social life can help prevent cognitive decline

American Health Care Act

The Republican health care bill could leave many Americans without affordable coverage. Last Week Tonight's catheter cowboy returns to morning cable news to explain that to Donald Trump.