THE OPINIONATERS. They were everywhere — the Washington celebrities, I mean. Tucker Carlson was on stage during a panel discussion on �America in the World� at The Week�s Opinion Awards dinner on Tuesday night at the Four Seasons. So were Tom Friedman and Jim Lehrer. Teresa Heinz Kerry asked a question from a table in […]
Tara McKelvey
Tara McKelvey, a senior editor at the Prospect, is a research fellow at NYU School of Law’s Center on Law and Security and the author of Monstering: Inside America's Policy on Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War.
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Torturer’s Toll
Tony Lagouranis is a 37-year-old bouncer at a bar in Chicago’s Humboldt Park. He is also a former torturer. That was how he was described in an email promoting a panel discussion, “24: Torture Televised,” hosted by the NYU School of Law’s Center on Law and Security in New York on March 21. And he […]
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Diary of a Conscientious Objector
In March 2004, a North Carolina soldier, Samuel W. Lynch, became one of a small number of soldiers who have been deployed to Iraq as conscientious objectors. (Approximately 87 soldiers were granted conscientious-objector status between 2003 and 2005, according to the Pentagon.) Lynch — like other conscientious objectors — joined other U.S. troops during security […]
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Who You Gonna Call?
Stuart P. Slotnick does not look like a rebellious lawyer. Photos of him alongside prominent Republicans including Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg decorate his office on the 35th floor of One Chase Manhattan Plaza, and a World War II-era “Pledge of Allegiance” poster hangs behind his desk. He dresses in a crisp white shirt with […]
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MARCHING ORDERS
MARCHING ORDERS. Back in 2002, months before U.S. troops arrived in Baghdad, American soldiers were told they would be heading for Iraq. At least that’s what a soldier in Hinesville, Georgia, a town outside the army base of Fort Stewart, told me last weekend. Now the news is different. Soldiers in three separate units in […]
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CONDUCT UNBECOMING
CONDUCT UNBECOMING. Last month, I spoke on the phone with a former army officer, S.P., who told me he had been invited to Fort Lewis, Washington, by Lt. Ehren Watada. Watada, as you may recall, became a minor media celebrity last summer when he refused to go to Iraq because he did not support the […]
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HORTON’S “NO COMMENT.”
HORTON’S “NO COMMENT.” Being a lawyer is the best job in the world because you get paid to read — at least that�s what a lawyer friend once told me. Of course, most of the reading would put ordinary people to sleep. The good news is that being a lawyer can turn you into a […]
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RIP. Ryszard Kapuscinski…
RIP. Ryszard Kapuscinski died on January 23 in Warsaw, Poland. He has been called the world�s greatest foreign correspondent — and for good reason. He started traveling in Africa in the early 1960s and later reported on events in Latin America, the Middle East, and other regions, first filing stories for PAP, the Polish news […]
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In Arabic in English in D.C.
Al Jazeera has been called “the terrorist network,” a “beheadings channel,” and “a mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden.” Yet there was Dave Marash, 64, Al Jazeera’s improbable anchor, sitting at his computer in a seventh-floor corner office in its K Street location, surrounded by mementos from his work as an Emmy-award-winning Nightline correspondent — a […]
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The Company
Given how battles within the Bush administration have played out, liberals have found themselves embracing the CIA in recent years. CIA officers — so the argument goes — are hard-working professionals with a keen understanding of the world and its problems, victimized by administration officials who have distorted their analyses for political gain. In fact, […]
