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Thomas Wilner and Andy Worthington have spent two decades trying to close the prison. Can Joe Biden finally make it happen?

The justices consistently ruled against plaintiffs who had their constitutional rights violated—and, in some cases, their bodies abused—by police, the Border Patrol, and the CIA.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.

The administration has promised to revise the post-9/11 legal basis for permanent war. It’s not enough.

Wolfgang Kaleck is using the justice system to do what nation-states will not or cannot.

How the United States reinvented empire

Justice is hung up on procedural hurdles and FBI shenanigans

A report from Guantanamo Bay

Why the U.S. military must withdraw from the detention camp

The perverse rules governing the September 11 trials