The critic, journalist, and essayist has two new books just out—one a meditation on two anti-terrorist trials and what they tell us about our post-9/11 world (A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny...
August 31 marks what President Obama has heralded as the end of our combat mission in Iraq. But as the last of U.S. combat troops leave, they’ll be replaced by as many as 7,000 private contractors charged with guarding...
The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates two “Communications Management Units” - experimental prison units in Illinois and Indiana designed to isolate prisoners from the general population. Two-thirds of the prisoners...
An important recent decision by the US Supreme Court could have significant implications for free speech and constitutional rights. In Holder versus Humanitarian Law Project, the court decided that speech could be...
Plans to build mosques in downtown Manhattan near the World Trade Center site, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and in Midland Beach, trudge forward, meeting resistance at every step. This past Sunday, there was yet...
For Pakistani Americans, will May 1, 2010 mark a turning point—for the worse? Are we in a post-Faisal Shahzad era? In the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing, already the government has talked about “severe...
"Pandibulan: Bathing by Moonlight” by Kinding Sindaw is a new dance work in which a woman from the southern Philippines, working as a caregiver in New York, rekindles her strength of spirit through the folklore and...
Earlier this month the Department of Homeland Security announced new rules for international flights to the US. The DHS warned travelers to expect random screening measures in the check in and boarding process,...
While Congress debates renewed aid to the Indonesian armed forces, an elite military unit was recently implicated in a series of assassinations of civilian activists in 2009. Investigative journalist Allan Nairn broke...
Obama has deployed almost 100,000 troops to Afghanistan. The Taliban is again on the rise. Civilian and military deaths are doubling and tripling. So called Afghanistan “experts” are on the news 24/7. But do we know...
