Ira Glasser is a fighter. He’s been defending freedom of speech, the right to privacy, and the right to due process for more than 30 years through his work with the American Civil Liberties Union, including 23 years as the head of the organization. Of late, he sounds just as combative when he talks about […]
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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Peace Movement
At first, Chris Hedges seems pretty mellow — especially for a former New York Times war correspondent. On a recent November evening, Hedges, 50, dressed in a professorial-looking checkered jacket, was drinking seltzer water in a hotel bar during Chicago’s Humanities Festival. (The theme is “War and Peace.”) But once he started talking, he sounded […]
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Boots (and Blogs) on the Ground
Reporters have, understandably, not been spending much time in certain parts of Iraq. It’s too dangerous — even for the most foolhardy among them. But soldiers are there. And they’re often online and chatty. The result is the proliferation of what has come to be known as milblogs — and a new book, Matthew Currier […]
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The Unaccountables
One December night in 2003, Adel L. Nakhla, a chunky, broad-shouldered Egyptian American interpreter with a soft, almost feminine voice, went to Cell 43 in Abu Ghraib’s Tier 1A. He was accompanied by Army Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr., a reservist convicted in January 2005 of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, to the […]
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First Responder
As a former U-2 spy plane pilot and war journalist, Espinoza had seen plenty of death and destruction over the years. But Hurricane Katrina, she says, was different. Two weeks after the storm hit New Orleans, she and her partner, Ellen Ratner, traveled to Mississippi to help people living in flood-damaged areas. Here, she talks […]
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The Unaccountables
One December night in 2003, Adel L. Nakhla, a chunky, broad-shouldered Egyptian American interpreter with a soft, almost feminine voice, went to Cell 43 in Abu Ghraib’s Tier 1A. He was accompanied by Army Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr., a reservist convicted in January 2005 of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, to the […]
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Boundary Issues
Anthony Lewis calls himself a “process man.” And these days, Lewis, the author of the bestselling Gideon’s Trumpet and former Times columnist, is keenly interested in the process of presidential decision-making and what happens when presidents overstep the boundaries of their office. On a recent Tuesday, Lewis thumbs through a speech he’s written on a […]
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A Zbig Deal
On a rainy November afternoon, Zbigniew Brzezinski, author, most recently, of The Choice: Global Nomination or Global Leadership, outlines a new Democratic strategy from his Center for Strategic and International Studies office on K Street. Some Democrats, such as Senator Joseph Biden, say they regret their decision to support the Iraq war. What do you […]
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First Do Some Harm
Mohammed, a 36-year-old graduate of Baghdad University’s College of Art, says he was examined by an American physician in a detention facility near Baghdad International Airport shortly after being arrested in late 2003. “The doctor said, ‘Maybe you have a bullet wound you are not aware of,’” recalls Mohammed, sitting in a hotel room in […]
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Downsizing, Iraq-Style
On July 6, President George W. Bush celebrated his 59th birthday in Copenhagen with a friend, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. It was an important moment for Bush, and not only because of the Greenland stamp collection he received as a birthday present. He also got a chance to show his appreciation to members […]
