A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect. By Joe Sexton.

We are said to be the most dangerous prisoners in the world. Yet in the years since this prison was opened, there have been no murders here, no escape attempts, no drugs. The only deaths have been those of the nine men who succumbed to health problems or took their own lives. By Ahmed Rabbani. (July 27, 2018)

Senator Elizabeth Warren has a simple idea for keeping big business accountable to the American public, not just shareholders. By David Dayen.

After refusing to directly answer questions about her history as an alleged torturer, Ray McGovern decided to ask Gina Haspel a question or two of his own and he wound up in jail for it, reports Joe Lauria.

What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it. By Christopher Hitchens. (Aug. 2008)

True moral commitment means desiring justice for others more than admiration for oneself… By Nathan J. Robinson.

Nothing will say more about who we've become as a nation than if a torturer is allowed to head the CIA. By Peter Van Buren.

How effective is shame as a tactic? Are there better responses to shameful behavior? By Briahna Joy Gray.

It’s time to re-examine the evidence that he not only committed serial sexual harassment, but lied about it. By Jill Abramson.

Bee Wilson reviews "The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England" by Christopher Hilliard.

The late publisher of Consortium News was a trailblazer who held lazy reporters and groupthink in the highest contempt. By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos.

Americans rolled over for decades while we gave the executive branch unreviewable authority to kill – now that power is in the hands of an idiot. By Matt Taibbi.

There’s a reason they aren’t passionately opposing radical health-care cuts.  By Kai Wright. (June 29, 2017)

Let’s hope we all remember the moral arguments about health care once the Trump administration ends. By Matt Taibbi.

Reflect

81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump. Now one of their biggest blocs has just condemned the alt-right. By Tara Isabella Burton.

‘Love of honour’, its official translation, is a utilitarian yet insufficient attempt to convey the constellation of virtues squeezed into the word’s four syllables. By Stav Dimitropoulos.

For six days in Portsmouth, Ohio, I keep trying to fool myself. Eventually, I am unable to just watch and listen. By Chris Arnade.

“’Terrorists don’t care who they kill,’ Phillips said. ‘It’s the number of bodybags that determines success.’ ‘And the publicity,’ Robinson interjected. ‘And the publicity,’ Phillips agreed.” By Des Freedman.

My mother died the day she turned 55. This Sunday will be my first Mother’s Day without her, but nearly a year after she died, I still find it impossible to be heartbroken over her passing… By Joshua Wilkey.