The horror of the photographs of the abuse at Abu Ghraib wasn’t as much the nudity or the stress positions inflicted on the Iraqi prisoners; rather, it was the smiling faces of the American soldiers who were calling the shots and clicking the shutters. Yet the photos themselves tell only a small part of...
Monthly Archives: May 2008
The Straight-Talking Writer Who Started It All
It was 1933, Franklin Roosevelt had taken office, and the country and the world were in the midst of tremendous upheaval. The Nazi Party seized power in Germany, Mahatma Gandhi began a hunger strike in India, and Japan left the League of Nations. At home, 1 in 4 Americans was unemployed, industrial production fell...
Where the Lights May Go Out This Summer
An electric association forecasts a decent outlook, but with trouble spots.
Figuring Out Who’s Who
The Army ramps up biometrics as it maps the 'human terrain'
