The accounts of Gitmo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi reveal brutal – and inefficient – treament It is one thing for the news media to tell us the U.S. government mistreats prisoners at the benignly named Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. It is entirely anothe ...
8 Oct 2015 - Jim Douglas
Matt Taibbi’s new book looks at the American justice system and the gap between what we’re led to believe and the reality of our economics The premise for “The Divide” is that our society has become “disturbingly comfortable” with a perverse system of jus ...
27 Feb 2015 - Jim Douglas
“ The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace ” by Jeff Hobbs tells the devastating story, to quote the subtitle, of “A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League.” But don’t expect a happily-ever-after ending. After graduating from Yale with di ...
4 Jan 2015 - Jim Douglas
Jacqueline Jones teaches at the University of Texas and has been awarded a MacArthur “genius” fellowship and other prizes. She’s an intellectual heavyweight, who specializes in African-American history, particularly as it relates to labor. I suspect that ...
18 Jun 2014 - Jim Douglas
Every war has its after-war,” writes David Finkel, “depression, anxiety, nightmares, memory problems, personality changes, suicidal thoughts.” In the recent “ Thank You for Your Service ” and 2009’s “ The Good Soldiers,” Finkel shows us what he means by p ...
15 Feb 2014 - Jim Douglas