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Guantánamo Diary
Guantánamo Diary chronicles Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s “endless world tour” of detention and interrogation, an odyssey that began when he voluntarily reported to a police station in Nouakchott, Mauritania...
View ArticleSilence: Tool, Weapon, Gift, Myth?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter. –John Keats At every moment we are bombarded by sound waves, light waves, gamma rays, x-rays, the solar wind. All around, through, and even...
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Was I a Torturer in Iraq?
In Baghdad, I run. I run past the canals that feed the artificial lakes of Saddam Hussein’s presidential retreat. The large palaces were all damaged during the initial days of the invasion, but the...
View ArticleThe Poetry of the War on Terror
I was 13 years old on September 11th, 2001, which means that my life since those attacks 15 years ago is now longer than my life before. Looking back, the 9/11 attacks forced me violently into...
View ArticleTV in the Age of Trump: An Interview with Emily Nussbaum
Every revolution needs chroniclers, pamphleteers, and prophets. Emily Nussbaum has performed all those roles (and won a Pulitzer) watching the explosive cultural comeback of TV—now at The New Yorker....
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Guantánamo Diary
Guantánamo Diary chronicles Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s “endless world tour” of detention and interrogation, an odyssey that began when he voluntarily reported to a police station in Nouakchott, Mauritania...
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Silence: Tool, Weapon, Gift, Myth?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter. –John Keats At every moment we are bombarded by sound waves, light waves, gamma rays, x-rays, the solar wind. All around, through, and even...
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Was I a Torturer in Iraq?
In Baghdad, I run. I run past the canals that feed the artificial lakes of Saddam Hussein’s presidential retreat. The large palaces were all damaged during the initial days of the invasion, but the...
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The Poetry of the War on Terror
I was 13 years old on September 11th, 2001, which means that my life since those attacks 15 years ago is now longer than my life before. Looking back, the 9/11 attacks forced me violently into...
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TV in the Age of Trump: An Interview with Emily Nussbaum
Every revolution needs chroniclers, pamphleteers, and prophets. Emily Nussbaum has performed all those roles (and won a Pulitzer) watching the explosive cultural comeback of TV—now at The New Yorker....
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Looking at the Other in the Midst of War
Two students were in the classroom when I arrived early to rearrange the chairs, from rows to a semicircle, so we could have a discussion. One elbowed the other. Tell her, she said. Miles shook his...
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The Photographer Who Recorded Assad’s Torture
Caesar “I am Caesar. I used to work for the Syrian regime. I was a photographer with the military police in Damascus. I will describe my work before the Revolution and during the first two years of the...
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Guantánamo Mixtape: This Would Be the Soundtrack to Hell
Advocates for prison reform have lobbied actively for the elimination of solitary confinement lasting more than 15 days in American prisons. Political detainees have far fewer advocates and little...
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The Straight Line From Slavery to Private Prisons
A white man on horseback, holding a rifle, looked out over an expanse of cotton that stretched beyond the horizon. Four packs of bloodhounds lay on the edge of the field. One dog had gold caps on two...
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