Torture

The Torture Temptation

Ted Galen Carpenter | Feb 01, 2013

The most compelling argument for legal torture is actually both sloppy and dangerous.

Ted Galen Carpenter | Nov 13, 2012

A new crackdown in the tiny kingdom opens Washington to charges of hypocrisy.

Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 24, 2011

An America in which torture becomes an acceptable, even normal, practice is not the America I know. It is not an America that I would want to know.

John J. Mearsheimer | Dec 16, 2010

Like his two most recent predecessors, President Obama is embarking on a disastrous foreign policy bent on global domination.

Alexa L. McMahon | May 03, 2013

Paul R. Pillar | Apr 21, 2013

Despite pledges of resilience and defiance, the United States allows terror threats to dictate its actions.

Paul R. Pillar | Mar 07, 2013