John McCain, Sarah Palin, and "Rights"
Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech was the best horror movie I've seen in a long time. I came to this realization after Palin exclaimed that, "A...
Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech was the best horror movie I've seen in a long time. I came to this realization after Palin exclaimed that, "A...
Erika Fry | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
While in Bangkok, Bush plans to meet Burmese activists, which may be his best last chance to reshape a legacy here, now dominated by his outsourcing of US torture to Thailand.
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
Read this incredible article by Warren Strobel of McClatchy Newspapers 'The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and conc...
Frederick P. Hitz | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
The CIA is a wounded culture searching for ways to again become relevant in the fight against terrorism.
William Fisher | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
When Jordan's King Abdullah II addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress in March 2007, his speech was filled with words like peace and justice. ...
William Fisher | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
On the day Petraeus and Crocker testify before Congress on Iraq, the ghost of Dwight D. Eisenhower will be hovering in the wings. And he won't be smiling.
Erik Lundegaard | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment
Hollywood has tried to make it easy for us by making its Iraq War films about us, and setting the action here, in the U.S. But we can't be bothered.
Lionel Beehner | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics
Oh Canada. Americans look up to you, both literally and figuratively. But your laid-back-ness and refusal to offend the powers that be in Washington can make us cringe.
Naomi Wolf | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
The need for leadership from lawyers in this country has never been greater. From wiretapping to torture to extraordinary rendition, the Bush administration has ignored and disrespected our Constitution and our laws.
Washington Post | Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen | Posted 12.09.2007 | Politics
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent t...
Tram Nguyen | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
The civil liberties debate isn't only about the right to privacy and dissent and other good things citizens enjoy, but the integrity of the Constitution and the human rights of all persons under its jurisdiction.
William Fisher | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
Mahar Arar went back to court last week, seeking to reverse a previous ruling barring him from suing the US Government for shipping him off to Syria, where he was jailed and tortured for close to a year.
ABC News | Stephen Grey | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics
Sometimes the music was American rap, sometimes Arab folk songs. In the CIA prison in Afghanistan, it came blaring through the speakers 24 hours a day...
Bruce Kluger | Posted 10.31.2007 | Entertainment
Hollywood's fast-moving popcorn-bucket brigade carries breaking stories from the newsroom to the editing room, seemingly overnight. Welcome to the industry's next new genre: the history-as-it-is-happening movie.
Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 10.27.2007 | Politics
On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guanta...
Steven Watt | Posted 10.25.2007 | Politics
"It is no secret that my brother was kidnapped and flown to secret prisons, that he was repeatedly tortured and humiliated. It is no secret that he's now holed up in Guantánamo with no relief in sight."
Josh Bolotsky | Posted 10.19.2007 | Politics
Rendition more or less understands the environment in which it's being released and bucks this cinematic broderism at every turn, and if for only that, progressives should give it a modicum of respect.
AP | David Germain | Posted 10.16.2007 | Entertainment
Before her latest film, if anyone had asked Reese Witherspoon what the term "extraordinary rendition" meant, she might have answered with a blank star...
The Times | Tim Teeman | Posted 10.07.2007 | Entertainment
Streep says she "had a lot of people in mind" when creating her character. "I'm a news junkie - C-Span, BBC, CNN." Journalists, she believes, "circled...
Huff TV | Posted 09.07.2007 | Media
ETP editor Rachel Sklar chats with Bill O'Reilly about the latest crop of political films. ...
Kit Gallant | Posted 09.05.2008 | Home