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Jeff Danziger lives in New York City. He is represented by CWS Syndicate and the Washington Post Writers Group. He is the recipient of the Herblock Prize and the Thomas Nast (Landau) Prize. He served ...
Today, in the United States, there is a multibillion-dollar industry for residential treatment—one that sells an illusory promise to desperate parents: Your children’s addictions and mental health problems can be cured with a relatively quick ...
The problem with torture is that people will say anything to make it stop. There is abundant evidence of this behavior in Washington, where the fear of political death also makes people say anything. Only ...
Offended by U.S. intelligence agencies investigating Russian interference in the presidential election, Donald Trump prefers his own fanciful version of events -- that he was robbed of a popular-vote victory by unlawful voters. Danziger ...
Chances are you haven’t thought about Guantanamo Bay - that American gulag - for a long time. Not everyone has the luxury of forgetting.
"Country first" is not an easy ideal to uphold, especially in our polarized national politics. For years the former prisoner of war could claim, more plausibly than most American politicians, that he has tried to ...
"He's talked about needing to torture. He's talked about needing to murder the families of alleged terrorists. He's talked about carpet-bombing ISIL. Who do you think is going to get carpet-bombed when all of that ...
Yesterday, Donald Trump responded to a terrorist attack by once again implying the unthinkable: America is losing the War on Terror because we haven't stooped to the terrorists' level.
His remarks were the clearest repudiation yet of the Bush-era policies which enabled the torture of suspected terrorists.
“Well, the average person might understand it as truth serum, but you know there are ways where you decrease a person’s conscious defenses, and they might be more willing to give up information.”
It has come to this.
McCain: "The United States has tried, convicted, and executed foreign combatants who employed methods of torture, including waterboarding."
"We're like living in medieval times," he said.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, wrote a 466-page memoir from his cell, which is a hellish account of perpetual torture.
"Chicago has finally confronted its past and come to terms with it and recognizing something wrong was done," said Mayor Emanuel.
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