Dave Lindorff, a frequent contributor to The Nation, is an independent journalist who writes on Cold War, climate change and other issues. He spent six years as a correspondent in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan for Business Week and was the winner of a 2019 Izzy Award for Outstanding Independent Journalism.
Already facing crippling debt and a rocky job market, students in default can’t even get access to the grades they’ve already earned.
Back on Friday, June 12, 2002, the Defense Department had a big problem: Its new policy on torture of captives in the “war on terror” was about to be exposed.