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Karen J. Greenberg

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How Democracy Dies:  Big Brother is Erasing the Public Record

How Democracy Dies: Big Brother is Erasing the Public Record

Karen J. Greenberg

The post-9/11 period stands out in American history for its relentless reliance on redacting material in government reports

Donald Trump
Statue of Liberty, R. I. P.:  Trump and the End of Citizenship

Statue of Liberty, R. I. P.: Trump and the End of Citizenship

Karen J. Greenberg

Halfway through Trump’s presidency, his administration has moved to use citizenship as an exclusionary factor

Children
Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Karen J. Greenberg

Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers

Pentagon
The New Role of the US Navy as Brig for the World

The New Role of the US Navy as Brig for the World

Karen J. Greenberg

During the first 20 years of the drug interdiction program, the U.S. detained around 200 individuals per year on board ships.

Supreme Court
How Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings

How Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings

Karen J. Greenberg

(Tomdispatch.com) – Amid the emotional hubbub over the predictable confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, there has been a largely overlooked casualty: the American judiciary. It’s not the end result alone — his addition to the highest bench in the land where he will sit for life — that promises to damage the country, but the unprofessional, […]

Immigration
TrumpWorld: A Vast Guantanamo Bay just for Children

TrumpWorld: A Vast Guantanamo Bay just for Children

Karen J. Greenberg

A requiem for a tragedy that has barely ended (if it has)

Donald Trump
How Trump's 2000 lies are Termites chomping at the Foundations of Democracy

How Trump’s 2000 lies are Termites chomping at the Foundations of Democracy

Karen J. Greenberg

We are facing an incremental dismantling of our institutions

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