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Douglas Valentine's “The Phoenix Program,” republished as the first in a series of repressed, forgotten books, shows the continuity between the CIA's secret war against civilians in Vietnam and …

Human Rights Watch accused Israeli soldiers of shooting and killing fleeing civilians in Gaza, citing interviews with seven Palestinians in the village of Khuza'a.

Updates on the Pentagon's overpayments; mortgages tilting toward the rich; the subprime car loan bubble; and silence about intangible property tax.

When Google acts essentially as an arm of law enforcement, it raises some big questions about privacy and security in a world where pretty much everyone communicates on some …

The list of homophobic and transphobic murders available on Wikipedia is far from complete.

Adolescents at the New York City jail are routinely subjected to physical abuse at the hands of guards and other inmates.

Abu Wa'el Dhiab, a father of four from Syria, is currently asking the DC District Court to order a halt to abusive force-feeding methods and the practice of unnecessary …

The CIA's inspector general released a report confirming that three of the agency's information technology specialists and two CIA lawyers spied on the computers and communications of the Senate …

After a New York City medical examiner rules homicide in the death of Eric Garner at the hands of police, we look at the growing concern over the use …

This conversation probes our assumptions around danger, safety, gender, and the measures used to maintain “security” in a society pervaded by prisons.