The “ticking bomb” scenario tries to make torture morally defensible by appealing to emotional and political ideas.
Culture & Media
Historian Gerald Horne discusses his new book “Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music.”
Perhaps no artistic vocation in the 20th century was more dangerous than that of a jazz musician.
Manuel Oliver has been tackling the gun violence epidemic through “nonviolent creative confrontation.”
The U.S. military is giving potential recruits an “immersive” experience but without the horrors of PTSD.
Trump’s policies seem to be spurring some long-overdue rethinking of what it means to be Christian in America.
“Toni Morrison will always be with us,” says poet Nikki Giovanni.
Toni Morrison was power embodied, showing us how Black art is inherently political.
Cornel West and Dolores Huerta discuss the media coverage of Trump and the structure of the Democratic debate.
The shallowness of the debates is designed to serve the financial interests of Big Media and its wealthy patrons.