David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the award-winning author of several books, including The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable (2009), Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (with Jules Lobel, 2007) and Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003).
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Keeping Watch on the Detectives
December 22, 2011
One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty
by Simon Chesterman
Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security
by Daniel J. Solove
The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
by David K. Shipler
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Targeted Killings
December 22, 2011
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Killing Our Citizens Without Trial
November 24, 2011
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After September 11: What We Still Don’t Know
September 29, 2011
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Guantánamo: The New Challenge to Obama
June 9, 2011
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‘Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional?’: An Exchange
April 7, 2011
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Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional?
February 24, 2011
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Hope and Betrayal on Death Row
November 25, 2010
The Autobiography of an Execution
by David R. Dow
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
by Wilbert Rideau
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What to Do About Guantánamo?
October 14, 2010
The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law
edited by Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz
Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror
by Charles Fried and Gregory Fried
The Guantánamo Review Task Force Final Report
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The Roberts Court vs. Free Speech
August 19, 2010
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project a case decided by the Supreme Court, June 24, 2010
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US Crimes Without Punishment
May 27, 2010
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They Did Authorize Torture, But…
April 8, 2010
Investigation into the Office of Legal Counsel’s Memoranda Concerning Issues Relating to the Central Intelligence Agency’s Use of ‘Enhanced Interrogation Techniques’ on Suspected Terrorists a report by the Office of Professional Responsibility, Department of Justice
Memorandum for the Attorney General by Deputy Attorney General David Margolis
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Getting Away with Torture
January 14, 2010
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Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?
November 19, 2009
Race, Incarceration, and American Values
by Glenn C. Loury, with Pamela S. Karlan, Tommie Shelby, and Loïc Wacquant
Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
by Paul Butler
Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics
by Anthony C. Thompson
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The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers
October 8, 2009
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The Same-Sex Future
July 2, 2009
Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse? What We’ve Learned from the Evidence
by William N. Eskridge Jr. and Darren R. Spedale
Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution
by Evan Gerstmann
Marriage, Sexuality, and Gender
by Robin West
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts
edited by Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello Jr., and Robin Fretwell Wilson
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Where Reagan Stopped
March 26, 2009
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What to Do About the Torturers?
January 15, 2009
Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
by Philippe Sands
The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book
by Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights
Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond
by Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh
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A Larger War on Terror?
December 4, 2008
Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century
by Philip Bobbitt
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The Brits Do It Better
June 12, 2008
The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty
by Laura K. Donohue
Executive Measures, Terrorism and National Security: Have the Rules of the Game Changed?
by David Bonner
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The Man Behind the Torture
December 6, 2007
The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration
by Jack Goldsmith
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The Grand Inquisitors
July 19, 2007
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice
by John Ashcroft
General Ashcroft: Attorney at War
by Nancy V. Baker
Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror
by Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq
It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush
by Joe Conason
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‘How to Skip the Constitution’: An Exchange
January 11, 2007
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How to Skip the Constitution
November 16, 2006
Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency
by Richard Posner
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An ‘Emergency Constitution’?
October 19, 2006
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Why the Court Said No
August 10, 2006
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In Case of Emergency
July 13, 2006
Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism
by Bruce Ackerman
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Are We Safer? An Epilogue
March 23, 2006
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Are We Safer?
March 9, 2006
The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right
by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon
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On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress
February 9, 2006
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What Bush Wants to Hear
November 17, 2005
The Powers of War and Peace:The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11
by John Yoo
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Uncle Sam Is Watching You
November 18, 2004
The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft
by Samuel Dash
The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age
by Jeffrey Rosen
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Gambling With Gay Marriage
February 9, 2012
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A Bill of Rights for Some
December 16, 2011
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Gitmo Forever? Congress's Dangerous New Bill
December 8, 2011
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Killing Citizens in Secret
October 9, 2011
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A Secret License to Kill
September 19, 2011
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A States' Rights Advocate Upholds Obamacare
July 5, 2011
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Guantánamo After Bin Laden
May 12, 2011
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Can Congress Force Us to Buy Broccoli?
February 4, 2011
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The Smithsonian's New Culture War
December 16, 2010
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Obama's Torture Problem
November 18, 2010
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How Will Gay Marriage Fare in the Supreme Court?
August 11, 2010
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The Roberts Court's Free Speech Problem
June 28, 2010
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He Was Tortured, But He Can't Sue
June 15, 2010
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They Did Authorize Torture, But …
March 10, 2010
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Obama & the Guantanamo Mess: A Way Out?
December 23, 2009
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Reading American Torture
October 15, 2009