Secrets and Lies Secrets and Lies
By the time the first prisoners were taken in Iraq, a green light to abuse had been issued in writing. Now torture is cloaked in a veil of secrecy, with obscured statistics, dismis...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Karen J. Greenberg
Pop Torture Pop Torture
Pop culture does more than validate the claim that torture could help foil bombs seconds before detonation.
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim
Rogue Scholars Rogue Scholars
Defenders of torture dwell not only in the White House and Pentagon, but in the halls of academia. When prominent law professors and academics cite the fantastic "ticking-bomb theo...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Tara McKelvey
Disco Inferno Disco Inferno
Military detainees have been subjected to starvation, sleep deprivation and now Metallica and Britney Spears. Blasted at high volume, torture music has become a weapon of war, used...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Moustafa Bayoumi
The Silence of the Doctors The Silence of the Doctors
The overlooked players in the torture scandal are the medical personnel who supervise--and often participate in--acts of torture. Military medical professionals have reportedly tai...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Jonathan H. Marks
Seeds of Abu Ghraib Seeds of Abu Ghraib
Americans wondered how Army Specialist Charles Graner could torture detainees in the gruesome Abu Ghraib scandal. In war, people do things that would otherwise be unthinkable. But ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Brass Tacks Brass Tacks
"Do what has to be done" is the motto of the investigative arm of the US military. But when the understaffed institution regularly loses evidence and delays autopsies, it does too ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Tara McKelvey
The Torture Administration The Torture Administration
Despite what we know of history, it comes as a shock to discover that American leaders would open the way for torture of prisoners, that the President would fight legislation prohi...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Anthony Lewis
The Silencing of Carlos Delgado The Silencing of Carlos Delgado
The New York Mets' squelching of first baseman Carlos Delgado's longstanding protest of the war in Iraq during the seventh-inning stretch speaks volumes about how the rules of the ...
Dec 7, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Democracy for Sale Democracy for Sale
A trove of new documents detailing the corruption and influence-peddling by Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay is sweeping the high-minded prophets of the Republican revolutio...
Dec 7, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer