Torture

In January 2009, Barack Obama entered the Oval Office projecting idealism, broadcasting five commandments by which life in his new world of national security would be lived. Five years …

One Russian prisoner, released from Guantanamo Bay for lack of any evidence, remains imprisoned in Russia, an expedient scapegoat for dubious antiterrorism policies, says Aisha Maniar.

While there is a growing ideological intimacy between centrist-right and extreme-right parties throughout Europe, the brutal treatment of migrants has been particularly egregious of late in Greece.

Despite substantial evidence of Dr. Leso's involvement in cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, the American Psychological Association recently decided to close a complaint against him without proceeding with formal …

When is torture, ‘torture’ in ‘The New York Times?’ When it's purportedly done by someone the US government disapproves of, says Justin Doolittle.

It's been 12 years since the prison at Guantanamo Bay opened, and the fundamental issues of indefinite detention and perpetual war remain.

Despite the unconstitutional horrors and atrocities that have taken place at Gitmo since it first began taking in prisoners 12 year ago, the prison doors are still open, and …

Fifty years ago, exactly one month after John Kennedy was killed, the Washington Post published an op-ed titled

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From October 22 to 25, 2013, pretrial hearings for the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people made little progress as the …