Two Prisoners Named Williams Two Prisoners Named Williams
The lives and deaths of two prisoners intersected this week--Stanley Tookie Williams and Richard Williams, flawed men whose political perspectives and pursuit of personal redemptio...
Dec 14, 2005 / Feature / Dan Berger
Human Rights, Rendered Meaningless Human Rights, Rendered Meaningless
The outsourcing of torture to other countries is a devilishly clever legalistic fiction that allows the Bush Administration to systematically violate basic human rights of terror s...
Dec 14, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Pro-Alito Buzz Cloaks a Draconian Agenda Pro-Alito Buzz Cloaks a Draconian Agenda
Advocates of Samuel A. Alito's nomination to the US Supreme Court praise him for "judicial restraint" and "not legislating from the bench." But the buzzwords conceal a political ag...
Dec 13, 2005 / Feature / Seth Rosenthal
Pilgrimage to Guantánamo Pilgrimage to Guantánamo
Twenty-five members of the Catholic Worker movement are walking across Cuba to the US Naval prison at Guantánamo Bay in hopes of meeting with more than 500 detainees, the fi...
Wrongly Held, Never Tried, Fighting Back Wrongly Held, Never Tried, Fighting Back
The Tipton Three embody a nightmare scenario of the "war on terror": Young British men visiting Pakistan for a wedding wound up accused of terrorism in Afghanistan, imprisoned and ...
Dec 9, 2005 / Feature / Sarah Goldstein
Torture Tree Torture Tree
As The Nation's editors have written in the lead editorial of this special edition on torture, there is no longer any point in
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Steve Brodner and Peter Ahlberg
‘Never Before!’ Our Amnesiac Torture Debate ‘Never Before!’ Our Amnesiac Torture Debate
Does it lessen the horror to admit that this is not the first time the US government has used torture to wipe out political opponents? The exclusion of the impact of the School of ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Column / Naomi Klein
Beyond Braceros Beyond Braceros
In a misguided GOP reform effort, Congress is ready to pass measures that would militarize border controls, violate workers' rights and give corporations a new bracero program. Imm...
Dec 8, 2005 / David Bacon
Conspiracy to Torture Conspiracy to Torture
No nation is immune from the insidious downward spiral signified by torture. In this special issue, The Nation confronts the sweeping moral seriousness what the torture conspiracy ...
Dec 8, 2005 / The Editors
An Army of Lawyers An Army of Lawyers
Human rights organizations have coordinated an investigation into torture and an extensive defense of detainees, organizing lawyers who represent clients from nonprofits to oil and...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Lisa Hajjar