Anyone hopeful that justice will be served in the Abu Ghraib investigation might wish to take a look back at the My Lai prosecutions: In the end, Charlie company’s commanding officer, Lt Calley, was the only one to be convicted. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour. Within three days he was out [...]
The NY Times technology section has a good article about some of the reasons the BJP lost the elections: In a country of 180 million households, only about 45 million have telephone lines. Among India’s 1.05 billion people, only 26.1 million have mobile phones. And while around 300 million Indians still live on less than [...]
If there can be gay Republicans, why can’t there be pro-life Democrats? Amy Sullivan understands that political parties are about building alliances, they are not meant to be social clubs. It is precisely this aspect of the Democratic Party that Republicans have been so successful in using against them. In a recent Prospect article, Geoffrey [...]
By using torture to question the top terrorists it has in custody, the government has effectively sabotaged any future prosecutions of al-Qaida players—major and minor—that might depend on evidence gathered through those interrogations. It’s plausible that skilled interrogation by the FBI, in accordance with American law, could have produced valuable evidence of these terrorists’ guilt, [...]