Green Lights for Torture Green Lights for Torture
So there were WMDs in Iraq after all. They're called digital cameras. Partly because of them, the United States faces one of the most humiliating defeats in imperial history.
May 13, 2004 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
On the Abuse of Prisoners in Iraq On the Abuse of Prisoners in Iraq
We're told that the few rotten apples Who brought on this sordid affair'll Be punished. But what if those apples Are right at the top of the barrel?
May 13, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
In Kind In Kind
As of this writing, seven in ten Americans want Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to remain at his post, a vote of confidence that exceeds that even for the President himself.
May 13, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
On April 28 the subject of torture was discussed in oral arguments before the Supreme Court.
May 13, 2004 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
The View From Prague The View From Prague
Only on my last day in this hilly, river-spliced city, with such beguiling old world charm and art nouveau elegance that unless you're Kafka a strenuous effort is required to m...
May 13, 2004 / Editorial / Peter Davis
Conditions of Atrocity Conditions of Atrocity
Even before the Congressional hearings on the criminal abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, Colin Powell brought up My Lai, the Vietnamese village where, in 1968, Ame...
May 13, 2004 / Editorial / Robert Jay Lifton
‘Dead Man Walking’ ‘Dead Man Walking’
"The unthinkable is becoming thinkable," neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan despaired recently in the Washington Post.
May 13, 2004 / Editorial / The Editors
Exporting America’s Prison Problems Exporting America’s Prison Problems
In 1997 a 29-year-old schizophrenic inmate named Michael Valent was stripped naked and strapped to a restraining chair by Utah prison staff because he refused to take a pillowc...
May 12, 2004 / Editorial / Dan Frosch
Thread of Abuse Runs to the Oval Office Thread of Abuse Runs to the Oval Office
Someone's lying--big-time--and neither Congress nor the media have begun to scratch the surface.
May 11, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer
Stonewalling on Wilson Stonewalling on Wilson
The publication of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's book, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity, affords a fresh opportuni...
May 6, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Corn