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Cartoons of the Week
May 19–25, 2012
Facebook face-plants, plus other editorial cartoons from the week. -
Historic TIME Letters
Law
How did a slogan endorsing compassion and tolerance get turned into indecency?
Minors should not get life sentences, even ones guilty of such heinous crimes as Deryl Dedmon’s
The policy of placing students with better-prepared peers ultimately makes classrooms less diverse. Here’s why
America refuses to adopt U.N. guidelines that it helped draft more than 20 years ago. Are we still in the dark ages?
While the Supreme Court debates nudity on old episodes of NYPD Blue, research shows we have a much bigger problem with kids and TV
The recently announced settlement with Countrywide financial doesn’t do enough to put borrowers back in their homes, let alone rebuild their neighborhoods
Scientists are butting heads with the government over whether scientific openness trumps national security
Carrier IQ and other smartphone apps allow for unprecedented surveillance. And it’s all legal
States’ rights is the argument for outlawing abortion, teaching evolution and, well, anything really
The Mississippi vote on Prop 26 may be over, but this battle will continue
A new report details how big business and corporate lobbyists are packing courts with judges who put special interests ahead of the public interest
Longer prison sentences, like Rajaratnam’s, don’t necessarily have a greater impact. Maybe we should try public shaming
In the 20 years since the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill has been deluged with letters about injustice in American life. Here’s why she never threw them out
