KOS AND FOREIGN POLICY. Chicago’s McCormick Place, a convention center on Lakeshore Drive, is huge and sprawling. So big, in fact, that I saw two sparrows fly through a fourth-floor hallway shortly before the start of a YearlyKos panel entitled “Progressive Foreign Policy and its Importance for Elections and Activism” on Friday afternoon. Some of […]
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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Lynndie England in Love
Long before Abu Ghraib, Pfc. Lynndie England posed for photographs for her then-boyfriend Charles Graner and violated military rules. An excerpt from Monstering.
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OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES….
OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. Human-rights advocates are, not surprisingly, dismayed by the executive order that authorizes the CIA to use severe interrogation methods on terrorism suspects being held overseas. Over the past two and a half years, I have spoken with individuals who have described some of the harsh techniques, including exposure to extreme heat and […]
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DISSENSION IN THE…
DISSENSION IN THE RANKS. For years Army officers had told the Pentagon that soldiers would be safer if they traveled in “Mine Resistant Ambush Protected” vehicles rather than Humvees. Little was done about it. Instead, many soldiers continued to ride in Humvees. It is a shame, especially since the lives of between “621 to 742 […]
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Downtown, Not Just for Yuppies
In Denver, thanks to low-income and environmental justice activists, a new mega-project will include affordable housing and good jobs.
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How Rights Became Human
Was it the Enlightenment’s emphasis on empathy — as expressed, above all, in that new literary form, the novel — that led to human rights?
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Robo-Tripping at Abu Ghraib
Soldiers’ videos and photos show how obscene games and simulated violence became part of everyday life and led to a culture of abuse in Iraq’s detention facilities.
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Rendered Speechless
Looming in the background of a recent meeting on terrorism in Italy: CIA officers may soon be put to trial for seizing a terror suspect in Milan.
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Interventionism’s Last Hold-Out
The Iraqi exile who convinced many liberal interventionists to support the war now stands alone in saying invasion was the right decision.
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Hardship Post
The funeral for Delphine Douyere, 36, was held on Sunday, March 4, in Rio de Janeiro. She had been killed, along with her husband, Christian Doupes, 42, and a 38-year-old colleague, Jerome Faure, six days earlier near the beach. They all worked for a humanitarian organization, Terr’Ativa (meaning, more or less, “Active Earth”), which provides […]
