Karen J. Greenberg
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Past articles by Karen:
Death by a thousand secrets? Why transparency is vital to democracy
Death by a thousand secrets? Why transparency is vital to democracy → Read More
'A symbol of our failure': The dark truth about closing the Guantánamo Bay prison
It’s now more than 20 years later and that American offshore symbol of mistreatment and injustice, the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is still open. In fact, as 2021 ended, New York Times reporter Carol Rosenberg, who has covered that notorious prison complex since its first day, reported on the Pe → Read More
Donald Trump and the American descent toward failed-state status
These past few months, it's grown ever harder to recognize life in America. Thanks to Covid-19, basic day-to-day existence has changed in complicated, often confusing ways. Just putting food on the table has become a challenge for many. Getting doctors' appointments and medical care can take months.... → Read More
How Obama abandoned accountability — and helped pave the way for Trump’s abuses – A
Whether you consider the appalling death toll or the equally unacceptable rising numbers of Covid-19 cases, the United States has one of the worst records worldwide when it comes to the pandemic. Nevertheless, the president has continued to behave just as he promised he would in March when there had → Read More
For Americans, ‘Over There’ now Over Here
Remember the song “Over There”? “Over there, over thereSend the word, send the word over thereThat the Yanks are coming,The Yanks are coming,The drums → Read More
Redacting democracy: What you can’t see can hurt you
The Nobel Prize-winning Czech author Milan Kundera began his 1979 novel, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by describing two photographs. In the first, two men are standing side by side, a Czech nationalist later executed for his views and the country’s Communist ruler. In the second, the dissent → Read More
Trump Has Created a Gitmo for Children on the Border
The fingerprints of those who created and sustained an offshore island prison for war-on-terror detainees are all over this policy. By the time Donald J. Trump threw in the towel, who among us hadn’t seen or heard the chilling videos in which U.S. border officials shamelessly grabbed uncomprehending children and toddlers from their pleading mothers and fathers? → Read More
Why Won't Guantanamo Prison Go Away?
The military and congress remain committed to preserving a terrible relic of the Bush presidency. → Read More