April 24, 2015
Hundreds of the mothers and children who fled persecution and violence in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala will spend this Mother’s Day in U.S.…
April 24, 2015
“The Dark Science of Interrogation” Bloomberg Business by Drake Bennett, 12 Feb 2015
The interrogation techniques being taught and used today (including coercive methods) have never…
April 17, 2015
The past decade has seen the ascendance of several far-right political parties across Europe. These groups, many of whom have been roundly criticized for their…
April 17, 2015
Origins of Golden Dawn
Golden Dawn exploded on the Greek political scene in 2012, amid the worst economic crisis in post-war history, stunning pollsters, politicians…
March 13, 2015
MYTH: AUMFs never have sunsets. FACT: Ten prior AUMFs (almost a third to the total number of AUMFs) have included sunsets. Recent examples include the…
March 10, 2015
“Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it’s inconvenient to do so. And we have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism,…
March 2, 2015
Protecting the persecuted is a core American value.
The U.S. asylum system has protected thousands of refugees from returning to places where they would…
February 24, 2015
This synopsis includes the six most important elements of an authorization for use of military force (AUMF) against ISIL – some of which are already…