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I first heard the expression “strategic incompetence” in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends, I’d been…
Rebecca Gordon
Rebecca Gordon teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Mainstreaming Torture, American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes.
I didn’t want to write this article. In fact, I had something relatively uplifting planned: an Independence Day piece about the rich…
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then).…
In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to…
The expression “punch-drunk,” Google informs me, means “stupefied by or as if by a series of heavy blows to the head.” Google’s…
“I never realized before that men hate us so much.” That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in…
The Washington Post headline reads: “A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won’t retire.” For the first time in history, reports Aden Barton, five…
A few days ago, my partner and I went in search of packing tape. Our sojourn on an idyllic (if tick-infested) Cape…
He’s a funny little chap: a sharp dresser with a sleek grey jacket, a white waistcoat, red shorts, and a small grey…
Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures…