Tag: Torture

  • Nation & World

    Why Soviet playbook isn’t working in Ukraine

    Pulitzer-winning journalist Anne Applebaum says Russians misjudged resistance, their troops lack sense of mission, leading to “nihilism” of wider, more random destruction.

    Anne Applebaum
  • Nation & World

    Lessons from a post-9/11 world

    Deborah Popowski is a Harvard Law School lecturer and human rights lawyer who has led efforts to hold psychologists accountable for their participation in torture during the war on terror.

  • Nation & World

    A mirror to coercion

    Alberto Mora, a top civilian lawyer for the U.S. Navy in the administration of President George W. Bush and an early critic of the CIA torture program, assesses the findings and conclusions of the newly released Senate Intelligence Committee report.

  • Nation & World

    The quantum of cruelty

    A former general counsel for the U.S. Navy, among the earliest Pentagon critics of detainee abuse, offers firsthand insights into the findings of the still-secret Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture.

  • Arts & Culture

    Whither Guantánamo

    In his new book, “Guantánamo: An American History,” lecturer Jonathan Hansen uncovers the rich and controversial history of an American empire on the tip of Cuba.

  • Nation & World

    Strong evidence

    The work of a Harvard history professor has bolstered the case of a group of elderly Kenyans who are seeking reparations from the British government for rape, castration, beatings, and other abuses that they say occurred during colonial-era efforts to suppress Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising.

  • Nation & World

    Voices of frustration

    In an afternoon discussion at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, investigative journalists from around the world discussed the challenges of reaching a wider audience.

  • Arts & Culture

    Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror

    Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried and his son, Gregory, chair of Suffolk University’s Philosophy Department, co-author this critique of government-sanctioned torture and surveillance.

  • Nation & World

    Doctor examines torture

    Author and Harvard doctor Atul Gawande explored the practice of solitary confinement in a lecture at Harvard Law School.

  • Science & Tech

    To tell the truth

    Harvard University study suggests that the pain of torture can make even the innocent appear guilty to those interrogating them.

  • Nation & World

    Schulz: U.S. should take stand on torture

    “The ancient Greeks would have been ashamed of us.” That was the assessment of Amnesty International USA’s former executive director William Schulz of the U.S. military’s abuses of prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in 2004. Schulz said that Greeks and Romans routinely tortured slaves as a way to establish the truth of a situation…