What the fuck has happened to our country? The man we stripped naked, beat the hell out of, and let freeze to death was “probably associated with people who were associated with al Qaeda”? Did we really build this city on a hill so we could throw innocents off the ramparts?

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.