A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s Deportation Machine A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s Deportation Machine
March 20, 2025 A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s Deportation Machine The machinery of mass deportation is meant to be impossible to stop. But any machine can be brought to a halt, if…
Mar 20, 2025 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky
Trump’s Guantánamo Plan Will Be a Costly, Morally Bankrupt Fiasco Trump’s Guantánamo Plan Will Be a Costly, Morally Bankrupt Fiasco
The US government has begun to shuttle immigrants from the United States to Gitmo, post photos of them in shackles, and lock them away.
Feb 17, 2025 / Jeffrey S. Kahn
The Remarkable Similarities of Gitmo and Israeli Military Courts The Remarkable Similarities of Gitmo and Israeli Military Courts
Guantánamo and Israeli military courts have the same goal: to make lawful systems of fair trial violations, torture, and arbitrary and indefinite detention.
Jun 30, 2023 / Ayah Kutmah
Two Decades Later, We Still Know Too Little About the Government’s Torture Program Two Decades Later, We Still Know Too Little About the Government’s Torture Program
Attempts to keep that blindfold in place in the name of “national security” have helped sustain darkness over light.
Jun 1, 2023 / Karen J. Greenberg
Emptying Guantánamo Is Not the Same as Closing Guantánamo Emptying Guantánamo Is Not the Same as Closing Guantánamo
Unless the post-9/11 forever prison is permanently shuttered, it’s only a matter of time before one of Biden’s successors takes up Trump’s unrealized call to fill it back up with “...
May 2, 2023 / Column / Spencer Ackerman
Will Biden Shut Down Guantánamo? Will Biden Shut Down Guantánamo?
After 7,627 nightmarish days of torture, cruel treatment, legal limbo, and injustice, it’s time for Biden to make good on his word: Shut it down.
Dec 14, 2022 / Karen J. Greenberg
Journey to Guantánamo: A Week in America’s Notorious Penal Colony Journey to Guantánamo: A Week in America’s Notorious Penal Colony
A journalist heads to the US naval base and detention center, seeking out truths we’re not meant to see.
Jul 11, 2022 / Feature / Moustafa Bayoumi
The Artwork of Guantánamo Detainees The Artwork of Guantánamo Detainees
Interrogated, tortured, and held for decades without charges, Gitmo prisoners held onto their humanity by creating art.
Jul 11, 2022 / Feature / Erin L. Thompson
Are We Any Closer to Shutting Down Guantánamo? Are We Any Closer to Shutting Down Guantánamo?
In the legal quagmire the US has created, there is no easy answer.
Jan 27, 2022 / Karen J. Greenberg
Guantánamo Is Still “a Black Hole of Secrecy” Guantánamo Is Still “a Black Hole of Secrecy”
Twenty years have passed since the first prisoners landed blindfolded in orange jumpsuits and were caged in the US-run enclave—and press restrictions at Gitmo are only getting wors...
Jan 11, 2022 / Clair MacDougall