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Pregnancy Risks Rise with Extreme Heat, But Public Health Info is Lacking
Chicago’s 1995 heat wave, which peaked in mid-July, killed 739 people, including disproportionately high numbers of Black, older, and socially isolated people. From catastrophe sprang then-novel city government policies designed to never allow a…
How Sex Ed Can Save Lives
When Abba M. learned that a sexual partner had exposed her to the human papillomavirus, commonly known as HPV, she did “a bunch of Googling.” The 21-year-old Alabama resident knew very little about it.
Turning to her friends proved…
With the Highest Rate of Cervical Cancer Deaths in the US, Black Women in Alabama Are Losing Out on Health Care
“If I didn’t have to go to the doctor, I didn’t go,” a 47-year-old breast cancer survivor living in Greene County, Alabama, told my colleague last year about losing her insurance in 2012 when she was laid off from her job. She needs access to…
Family Separation: A Flashpoint in the Global Migrant Crisis
The Family Separation Issue in the United States is Symptomatic of a Much Broader Global Problem
Following a substantial increase in the enforcement of the Trump administration’s policy to separate migrant children from their parents, anti-immigrant policy and rhetoric hit a flashpoint last week. Images and audio of…
How To Make A North Korea Deal Work
President Donald Trump’s Singapore summit with Kim Jong Un yielded very little in terms of firm denuclearization commitments from North Korea. It delivered nothing on human rights. In fact, the non-binding joint communique marking the summit didn’t…
Gina Haspel is the wrong choice to head the CIA
Much concern has been raised, for good reason, about President Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Haspel allegedly was involved in reckless, illegal torture under the agency’s “rendition,…
Cruel Choices: How Trump’s Global Gag Rule Hurts the Fight Against HIV
Pamela was 13 years old when both her parents died in the 1990s as the AIDS pandemic inflicted death across East Africa. She sold sex to keep herself and her three younger siblings fed and alive. When she got pregnant she had no real choice but to get an…
13 Years On, Will 9/11 Ever Go to Trial?
In any normal case, in any ordinary court, judges hold preliminary hearings to narrow the issues and move the case closer to trial. But there is nothing ordinary about the prosecution of the five men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. And the…
The Real Bergdahl Swap Scandal
If the Taliban prisoners released could have been prosecuted, they should have been
Though questions have been raised about whether the Obama administration should have exchanged five Guantanamo detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, one thing is clear: The decision shouldn’t impede U.S. efforts to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.…
The year of living more dangerously: Obama's drone speech was a sham
A lot can happen in a year. And a lot can't.
Twelve months ago today, Barack Obama gave a landmark national security speech in which he frankly acknowledged that the United States had at least in some cases compromised its values in the years…
The Yemenis at Guantánamo
The sight of a man, free, who used to be in chains, is breathtaking. And so I gasped as Salim Hamdan walked into the lobby of my hotel in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, one evening in January. Now in his mid-40s, he looked heavier and happier than I remembered…
Make justice, not Gitmo
Terrorists face real consequences in US civilian courts
The American public has had a pretty good demonstration over the last couple of weeks in how a US federal court handles a big terrorism case. The New York City trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, on charges of conspiring to kill…
Guantanamo: System failure
You know something is wrong when defense lawyers have to hike to Starbucks to find Internet access they feel they can—relatively, anyway—trust. But that’s exactly what lawyers for the five men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks felt they…
Moving prisoners from Cuba is the best chance for justice
With Congress back in session, Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester will soon consider whether to adopt new provisions in a defense-spending bill allowing Guantanamo Bay detainees to be transferred to the U.S. for trial by federal courts.
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US/Yemen: "I just want the U.S. to send my father home"
The family of a Gitmo detainee twice cleared for transfer remains pessimistic, despite Obama's speech vowing reform
Muhammad al-Baidhani, an 11-year-old Yemeni boy with a mop of brown curls, only knows his father from photos and a one-hour video conference every two months. Before Muhammad was born, his father was captured and sent to the U.S. military prison at…
Obama Rejects Perpetual War, But Questions Remain About Targeted Killings
President Obama gave a major speech in Washington today on US counterterrorism policy. The speech contained a number of significant announcements, including notice that the administration would resume releases of Guantanamo prisoners “recommended for…
How to Close Guantanamo
Why Obama doesn’t need Congress to start to make good on his promise.
President Barack Obama finally broke his long silence on Tuesday on the need to close Guantanamo. Echoing comments he made four years ago -- when, on his second day in office he promised to close the facility within a year -- he said "Guantanamo is not…
US: Zero Dark Torture
Zero Dark Thirty, the movie drama of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, has spawned a wide array of commentary. None is as misleading or morally disturbing, however, as the one from former CIA counterterrorism chief Jose Rodriguez, who seized on the film as an…
Indefinite Detention Is Already Bad, Don't Add Discrimination
Late last year, Congress passed and the president signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2012. The NDAA codified, for the first time since a never-used McCarthy era law, indefinite detention without charge or trial…