There is little doubt that the permanent war on terror will continue in a Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump administration
Sundus Saleh, an Iraqi woman, first filed her lawsuit against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz in September 2013
Zubaydah was tortured repeatedly at the “black sites,” where the CIA subjected him to waterboarding 83 times
The United States has no uniform law on the death penalty. Each state is free to choose whether or not to execute people. Nineteen states have abolished the death penalty
Trump’s character is racist, sexist, and just downright mean. A Trump presidency would pose an unimaginable danger to the people of this country.
Under the guise of increased transparency, the administration has revealed partial information about its targeted killing program. But much remains classified. And what we do know does not comply with the law
Though some anti-war Americans see hope that Donald Trump would pull back from foreign wars, they also must face his undeniable record of racial and sexist bigotry
There is a slippery slope from police use of armed robots to domestic use of armed drones.
If Justice Antonin Scalia had survived to participate in the remainder of the 2015-2016 Supreme Court term, his vote would have made…
As expected, the administration’s numbers are significantly lower than tallies documented by leading nongovernmental organizations
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