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My Experience: Why I Will Be A Torchbearer To Future Generations
By Sarah Cohen Kassin, 2019 Luce 24 Under 24 Award Recipient Brooklyn, N.Y. I am petrified. Not for you, not for me, but for future generations. I fear the day when there…
After CIA Torture Revelations, U.S. Must Recover Moral High Ground – U.N. Expert
Editor's Note: I am pleased to have presented an Award of Acknowledgement to H.E. Juan E. Méndez on January 9, 2010 at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago as part of the Wo…
President Obama Responds to U.S. Senate Torture Report
Read the President's full statement below: Throughout our history, the United States of America has done more than any other nation to stand up for freedom, democracy, an…
U.S. Releases Report on CIA Interrogation Methods
Washington, D.C. The United States has released a long-awaited report detailing how the Central Intelligence Agency employed extreme interrogation methods on suspected te…
U.N. Human Rights Expert Urges U.S. to Limit Solitary Confinement
New York, N.Y ., Nearly one year ago Amnesty International (USA) declared that the solitary confinement of more than 3,000 California inmates in two prisons is tantamount…
Which Publisher in the U.S. will Discover Brilliant Haitian Writer Franketienne?
Brooklyn, NY. Having only recently discovered Franketienne – in the way that Columbus "discovered" America - I feel like a Johnny Come Lately to the cultural feast. This…