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On CIA secrecy, torture, and war-making powers

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An expert panel concludes that the Pentagon and the CIA ordered physicians to violate the Hippocratic Oath

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How will the Obama Administration handle Edward Snowden’s case in the long term?

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Is it possible to simply disband the partisan FISA court?

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What the United States can learn from the East German surveillance experience

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Why has a secret court been permitted to place America at the center of a new global panopticon?

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Will the NSA’s surveillance program threaten the Atlantic Alliance?

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A new report from Seton Hall University exposes government surveillance of attorney-client conversations

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Rashid Khalidi on how the United States sustains the failure of the Israel-Palestine peace process

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Alex Gibney on his documentary investigating the Roman Catholic Church's handling of child sex-abuse cases

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Congress prepares to slap down prosecutors linked to the suicide of Aaron Swartz

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A leading cyberactivist commits suicide at twenty-six. Was he hounded to death by federal prosecutors?

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By sending a decorated intelligence officer to prison, the Justice Department shields torturers in the ranks of the CIA

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An inspector general's report finds, again, that the Department of Justice is strangling the pardons process

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A European human rights court hands down the first binding decision against Bush-era  rendition techniques

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Tina Rosenberg on the British spy novelist who hoodwinked Hitler

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“There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can’t remember the second.” That quip was offered by Mark Hanna during the first modern…

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The Bush Administration originally created special-detention facilities at Guantánamo on the theory that—given the unique historical provenance of the base, which was secured under a lease at the end of…

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Just days after Attorney General Holder announced a formal decision of impunity resulting from a probe into 101 documented cases in which CIA agents engaged in acts of torture and…

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After four years in the political penalty box, Karl Rove has returned as the undeniable mastermind of the G.O.P.’s electoral effort. Vanity Fair contributing editor Craig Unger has just published…

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There is some long-settled wisdom among Washington politicos: When you have bad news and want to avoid attention, you release it just before a holiday weekend. And when you can…

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We live in a world in which the private space we are afforded seems to be constantly shrinking. Travelers are subjected to ever-mounting indignities at airports, and those who turn…

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Alex Cooley Through much of modern history, Central Asia has been a borderland between great empires that vied for influence within it. This came to an end with the Soviet…

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In the midst of a recent deposition under oath in a lawsuit in which he was seeking to recover money he believed he was owed by the Florida G.O.P., former…

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Measured by revenue, ExxonMobil is the largest corporation on earth. Its operations span the globe, and it behaves like a powerful sovereign, exercising immense influence over the governments of the…

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The last years of Mozart’s life and the prodigious and important works he created during them have been heavily romanticized in the musical literature. Now, one of this generation’s leading…

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The Supreme Court has held the news spotlight this week as at no other time in recent memory. The Court’s 5–4 ruling on this year’s cornerstone case, addressing challenges to…

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Henry Crumpton spent twenty-four years in the CIA’s clandestine service. His work put him at the forefront of the agency’s counterterrorism efforts, and on the front lines as America took…

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