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Karen J. Greenberg

Karen J. Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and author of The Least Worst Place: Guantánamo’s First 100 Days. Her latest book is Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State. She will never write The Least Worst Place: Guantánamo’s Last 100 Days.

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Dec 10, 2017
Latest from Karen J. Greenberg
President Trump speaks with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 3, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
Op-Ed
Politics & Elections

The COVID-19 Outbreak Has Enabled Trump to Advance His Right-Wing Agenda

The pandemic has helped green-light plans and projects that encountered opposition before the crisis.
by
Karen J. Greenberg,
TomDispatch
April 7, 2020
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News Analysis
Politics & Elections

Our Democratic Institutions Are Dying as Presidential Power Grows

George W. Bush laid the groundwork. Trump has taken executive excesses to the next level.
by
Karen J. Greenberg,
TomDispatch
February 27, 2020
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President Trump talks to members of the press on the South Lawn of the White House, July 30, 2019.
News Analysis
Politics & Elections

Trump Has Made 13,435 False or Misleading Claims While in Office

Donald Trump is waging a war on words.
by
Karen J. Greenberg,
TomDispatch
November 21, 2019
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Children who have been separated from their families can be seen in tents at a migrant prison camp in Homestead, Florida, on June 28, 2019.
Op-Ed
Human Rights

Trump’s Declaration of Inhuman Rights Includes Children in Migrant Jails

The Trump administration is attempting to recast human rights to exclude the most vulnerable among us.
by
Karen J. Greenberg,
TomDispatch
July 25, 2019
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Blacking out the grimmest aspects of our own history will leave us unable to understand the country they live in.
News Analysis
Politics & Elections

Redacting Democracy: What You Can’t See Can Hurt You

Hiding the grimmest aspects of our own history will leave us unable to understand the country in which we live.
by
Karen J. Greenberg,
TomDispatch
May 14, 2019
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The Statue of Liberty is backlit by the sun
Op-Ed
Immigration

Citizenship in the Age of Trump

Trump and his advisers have refused to uphold the rights of U.S.-born citizens, let alone naturalized ones.
by
Karen J. Greenberg,
TomDispatch
March 21, 2019
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Protesters demonstrate against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh outside the US Supreme Court on October 3, 2018, in Washington, DC.
Op-Ed
Politics & Elections

How Guantánamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings

Kavanaugh’s confirmation continued the undermining of justice that began with Guantánamo.
by
Karen J. Greenberg,
TomDispatch
October 15, 2018
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A migrant child looks out the window of a bus as protesters try to block a bus carrying migrant children out of a US Customs and Border Protection Detention Center on June 23, 2018, in McAllen, Texas.
Human Rights

A Children’s Guantánamo on the Border Is the Heartless US’s Latest Nightmare

No one familiar with Gitmo could have missed the parallel.
by
Karen J. Greenberg,
TomDispatch
June 26, 2018
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Donald Trump listens during a meeting with California leaders and public officials who oppose California's sanctuary policies in the Cabinet Room of the White House May 16, 2018, in Washington, DC.
Politics & Elections

Down the Memory Hole: Trump’s Strategic Assault on Democracy, Word by Word

Trump is hardly the first president to discover the importance of language as a political tool.
by
Karen J. Greenberg,
TomDispatch
May 17, 2018
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Op-Ed
War & Peace

Guantánamo’s Living Legacy in the Trump Era

It appears that US just can’t escape the perpetual pendulum of the never-ending war on terror.
by
Karen J. Greenberg,
TomDispatch
October 16, 2017
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