Torture at Abu Ghraib

An Iraqi who was told he would be electrocuted if he fell off the box. I am on vacation this week but thought it would be useful to republish a painful story I did two decades ago for the New Yorker about a group of US army soldiers who went out of control amid a war...

Can we predict 2024?

Despite all of my disastrously wrong past predictions, I cannot resist sharing my thoughts on the coming year. Before I start, let’s accept that state-created pain, state hypocrisy, and state-funded murder around the world – much of it funded and enabled by the US...