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See No Evil

From a November discussion on the Eyes Left podcast, between Mike Prysner, an Iraq War veteran, and Mansoor Adayfi, a former detainee at Guantánamo Bay. mansoor adayfi: As you know,…

Narco in Chief

by Andrew Cockburn,

How America enables corruption in Honduras

Look Who’s Talking

From “Human Rights Record of the United States in 2017,” a report published in April by China’s State Council Information Office. On April 20, the State Department of the United…

The APA Grapples with Its Torture Demons: Six Questions for Nathaniel Raymond

by Scott Horton,

Nathaniel Raymond on CIA interrogation techniques.

Against Human Rights

by Eric A. Posner,

From The Twilight of Human Rights Law, by Eric A. Posner, out next month from Oxford University Press. Posner is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Amarildo…

The Fall and Rise of Occupy Wall Street

by Jeff Madrick,

A year and a half after the takeover of Zuccotti Park there exists a widespread conviction that Occupy Wall Street ultimately failed, and that it did so for lack of…

Calderón’s war

by Cecilia Ballí,

The gruesome legacy of Mexico's antidrug campaign

Minority death match

by Naomi Klein,

Jews, blacks, and the "post-racial" presidency

We are the government

by Harper’s Staff,

Why I Pay My Taxes

by Ben Metcalf,

And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was…

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