Anna Nicole Smith

By Kate Harding Maybe Vallis is right that people will never stop talking. But maybe we can be better than that. The SRSA statement ends with thanks to the law firm that "stepped forward pro bono when the need to protect the rights and dignity of our golden girl arose," and to "South Africans (old and young, bl...

By Glenn Greenwald Courts and commissions are both essential tools in our fight against terrorism . . . On the same day I sent these five defendants to federal court, I referred five others to be tried in military commissions.  I am a prosecutor, and as a prosecutor, my top priority was simply to select the venue w...

By Glenn Greenwald According to The Associated Press, Eric Holder will announce later today that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 defendants will be brought from Guantanamo to New York to stand trial, in a real criminal court, for the crimes they are accused of committing.  This is a decision I rea...

By Kate Harding It's an exciting moment, and there's a chance to make a real difference if this latest swell of righteous indignation doesn't lead directly to the same old shit: Some of us panic about losing a Democratic majority and start hollering at others to quit being so picky and oversensitive abou...

By Mary Elizabeth Williams Remember those halcyon days of yore, when a celebrity could enjoy a leisurely few months after giving birth before posing in Playboy or strutting in a Victoria’s Secret fashion show? Is that the same Nicole Richie who was looking positively skeletal not so long ago? The one who was being t...

By Glenn Greenwald UPDATE:  It's worth noting that, almost invariably, the people who beat the drum for endless, debt-creating wars and a bankruptcy-inducing imperial foreign policy love to parade around as "fiscal conservatives" and "deficit hawks" when it comes to providing actual services to ...

By Glenn Greenwald As a response to that new letter, Smith and a colleague of his have now been summoned to appear before a Washington court on May 11, to answer a criminal complaint filed by the Privilege Review Team, alleging that Smith -- merely by sending Obama the redacted memo -- has violated the secrec...