Not a shining moment for the press | What if the Casey Anthony jury hadn't been sequestered?
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The court of public opinion, shaped by sensational, damning press accounts, found this young Florida woman to be a horrid person, guilty as charged in her two-year-old daughter’s death. The jury, sequestered and not subject to the vicious coverage, acquitted her. Writer Keith Long thinks the jury got it right, and says justice was done despite the media’s accounts.

Go after the pols | Looking ahead: A handbook for Occupiers on winter days
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With cold weather coming, Henry Banta says Occupy Wall Street may want go indoors for town hall meetings to push on issues that politicians would rather ignore, such as income inequality, the financial crisis, financial reform, taxes, spending, and unions. Sort of like the Tea Party did, but getting beyond the hostility, and if possible, the expert obfuscation.

Fraud? What fraud? | If you had to guess, would you say federal financial fraud prosecutions are up? Or down?
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The pervasive fraud at the heart of the financial crisis has not slowed the steady, 13-year decline in the federal prosecution of financial institution fraud, reports TRAC. What forces are at play here?

Pleading poverty? | Defense budget alarmism necessitates journalistic skepticism
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Defense expert Bill Hartung offers ways to put the Pentagon's cries of poverty into a little context.

In the national interest | Getting to a more consistent U.S. approach to human rights promotion
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U.S. presidents are notoriously inconsistent when it comes to promoting human rights abroad, on the theory that our strategic goals come first. But one expert suggests that a more consistent approach would boost, not threaten, our national interests.

Think Tahrir Square | Which comes first: the Constitution or cities' no-camping rules? ASK THIS John Hanrahan writes: 'What we are seeing in the Occupy Wall Street and related protests, in addition to the economic and other grievances being voiced, is a full-throated defense of the First Amendment in its purest form, the likes of which America has not seen for a very long time.'

2010 Census findings | The U.S., soon to be majority-minority
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Non-Hispanic whites still make up the majority in America but they won't much longer. Census figures show the two largest states, California and Texas, already are majority-minority; so are 22 of the 100 largest metro areas. Writer J.W. Anderson asks: Are citizens prepared for such a major change? Are politicians? Is the press?

Occupy Wall Street | Why now?
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Glenn Greenwald writes that protests are sweeping America because it has become obvious that the wealth of the top 1% is the byproduct not of risk-taking entrepreneurship, but of corrupted control of our legal and political systems.

The ‘Red Market’ | Trade in bodies and body parts: Where reality bumps into ethics
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Scott Carney, author of a book on the subject, notes that enormous amounts of blood, skeletons, surrogate wombs, kidneys, and children up for adoption are sold both legally and illegally. Globalization has made the speed of trade bewildering, and prone to abuses. When crimes happen few law enforcement agencies want to pursue them.

Who are the winners here? | When it comes to the Iranian assassination plot, where's the motivation?
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A former CIA station chief points out that Iran had little reason to hatch such a crazy plan; while advocates of a more hostile approach to Iran are the big winners from its exposure.

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