Lately, still-Vice-President Dick Cheney has been doing a number of interviews, sharing his rationale for why the executive should not have to answer to anyone,…
Dylan makes a ton of good points in opposition to Gates staying on at Secretary of Defense, but I think there’s one way in which…
Clive Thompson has a great column up over at Wired about a controversial new World of Warcraft quest:
In the recent expansion pack Wrath of…
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the reluctant torture advocate (via Tapped):
“We don’t want to be known for torturing people. At the same time we don’t want…
On the debate over which faction is to blame for the GOP’s current electoral woes (intensified somewhat by Kathleen Parker’s recent, kind of inflammatory, column),…
Critics of the Bush administration have compared our current president to Hitler, Stalin, and just about every other dictator, but perhaps a look at the…
Glenn Greenwald has a fantastic post up at Salon about last week’s conviction of Paul F. Little (a.k.a. “Max Hardcore”) on obscenity charges. The Department…
The members of the American Psychological Association voted yesterday to prohibit psychologists from working in areas where people are detained outside—or in violation—of international law…
…by not indicting himself for war crimes. Andrew Sullivan, after watching the president’s address to the Republican Nation Convention last night, wondered why Bush didn’t…
Aaron posted yesterday about a rather controversial exhibit at Coney Island that depicts a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit being waterboarded. Some folks argue that…
Artist Steve Powers recently set up an animatronic display of waterboarding in Coney Island. The scene includes a black hooded figure armed with a watering…
Investigate reporter Jane Mayer spoke to Bill Moyers on Friday about her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on…
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