The 23rd anniversary of 9/11 prompts reflection on how the Global War on Terror transformed American norms and laws, questioning the continuance of outdated policies like the 2001 AUMF and…
The Peril of Forgetting Guantánamo.
The Stubborn Legacy of America's Response to 9/11
Shutting Down Gitmo Is Hardly the Last Step.
America’s Continuing Quest to Hide Torture.
From Forever War to Eternal War.
It’s hard to fathom how Gitmo was opened, no less how it’s lasted for 7,627 days.
Consider what lessons — if either our leaders or the Russian president were rational creatures when it came to such endless wars — might be drawn from America’s Global War…
While past presidents like George W. Bush and Barack Obama didn’t stagger out of the White House loaded down with secret documents, secrecy has been the name of the only…
Even before the Samuel Alito opinion on Roe v. Wade became public, our justice system was headed for the nearest drain.
Karen Greenberg paints a picture of a planet in which the local and the global are becoming one and the same in a genuinely frightening fashion.
Will we "celebrate" its 30th anniversary?
Ironically, while a number Americans least responsible for the horrors of the last two decades have directly or indirectly placed a critical lens on their own actions (or lack thereof),…
However unsuccessful, the war on terror will continue. The only difference: It won’t be called a war anymore.
The country's loss of accountability has been coming for a long time at what, in retrospect, should seem an alarmingly inexorable pace.
