Clark wanted desperately to be a father to his kids. But prison, along with a Clinton-era child welfare law, conspired to take them away from him—for good.
It’s not just at Guantánamo. In a supermax facility on US soil, inmates are force fed — and barred from sharing their stories. An inmate breaks his silence for the first time.
If signed, the order would create wholesale exemptions for organizations who claim religious objections to same-sex marriage, abortion, and trans identity.
When Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, he claimed the law was “not about discrimination.” But employers there can fire workers for being gay or trans — and they do, all the time.
Post–Citizens United, candidates aren’t supposed to coordinate with “outside” spending groups — but even that minimal restriction isn’t being enforced.
As the Obama administration signals an effort to partner with the kingdom as its key ally against ISIS, the Saudi government adds GOP Super PAC Chair Norm Coleman to its payroll.
While trumpeting “pension reform,” Governor Chris Christie placed retiree assets in the hands of the hedge fund managers who bankrolled his political career.
Coalition forces in Afghanistan pay compensation to civilian victims and their survivors — but keep no comprehensive records, and the US military denies all responsibility.
Those who make decisions about Haiti’s recovery work in a Sapphire City of deluxe trailers, glistening toilets, and international cuisine. Few actual Haitians are welcome there.
The powerful House Armed Services chairman regularly cashes in political favors, fails to disclose conflicts of interest, and speculates in the industries he regulates.
In his Bain years, the GOP nominee helped fashion Monsanto into a biotech giant. What would the notorious purveyor of genetically modified foods get from a Romney presidency?
The GOP veep candidate loves to rail against Obamacare. But in December 2010, he requested grant money for a health clinic in his Wisconsin district — a grant funded by Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
Never mind the Super PACs, post-Citizens United, it’s trade associations that are shoveling corporate cash into the November elections — and helping foreign money influence American politics.
The NRA’s dire warnings that the President is a threat to the Second Amendment are bogus — but extremely profitable. See sidebar on New York City gun laws here.
One Georgia county bet its financial future on becoming a regional center for immigrant detention. But harsh immigration politics scared off the very workers farmers depend on for the harvest.
After Haiti’s earthquake, the Clinton Foundation promised hurricane shelters that would double as classrooms. But they delivered shoddy, formaldehyde-tainted trailers from the same company that supplied FEMA after Katrina.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is poised to launch on July 21. But banks, payday lenders, and the GOP have joined forces to try to gut it first.
Even after the Silsby affair, when ten American missionaries were arrested in Haiti for attempted child theft, the Christian adoption movement is unchastened.
They were set up covertly by Bush — but the Obama administration has expanded them. Inside the secret prisons that ban virtually all contact with the outside world.
Camden, New Jersey, was once an industrial giant, employing tens of thousands in its shipyards and factories. Now it’s a poster child for postindustrial decay — and its streets are filled with the unemployed.
The Minutemen were the nation’s largest border vigilante group before financial scandals and criminal violence tore them apart. Now former leaders are bringing their anti-immigrant politics inside the Tea Party.
The “biggest loan modification in American history,” announced in October 2008, has done more to protect Bank of America than to compensate victims of predatory lending.
In Texas, the combination of abstinence education and anti-abortion stigma is driving some women away from abortion clinics — to unsafe do-it-yourself chemical abortions at home. Is the post-Roe era already here?
Two independent eyewitnesses say Iranian forces crossed the border into Iraq to arrest the three Americans last July. Then a rogue officer took over custody.
To make room for its ecotourism industry, Tanzania is forcing villagers off their land. And a $16,500-a-night “bush-chic” reserve owned by hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones is one of the beneficiaries.
With its deep pockets, the Templeton Foundation is rewriting the academic landscape by giving scientific legitimacy to religion. And the new chairman of the ‘nonpartisan’ group has strong ties to the far right.
A close look at the race gap in the census, which means large numbers of African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans aren’t counted when budgets and political districts are set.
The effort to keep fuel flowing for the American military has led to questionable alliances in Kyrgyzstan and allegations of corruption entangling the US government.
Chuck Luther is the latest victim of the military willfully misdiagnosing injured soldiers with a “pre-existing” personality disorder — and discharging them without the health benefits they desperately need.
As Washington dithers, sites long slated for clean up continue to threaten human health, coating homes and yards with poisonous dust and saturating the air near schools.
To Western consumers, carbon offsets sound good on paper — but the devil is in the details. On the ground, many of these enterprises are dubious at best.
A private memo from lobbying powerhouse Patton Boggs reveals that a Pentagon contractor currently under Congressional investigation has sought to influence U.S. policy in Afghanistan.
Defense contractors in Afghanistan use federal funds to pay off suspected insurgents not to attack US supply convoys. And this payola may be a major source of funds for the Taliban.
The spread of highly questionable practices — including coercion of destitute pregnant women — in the anti-abortion movement’s “crisis counseling” centers.
The state of play of Iranian politics around this year’s much-disputed presidential election, which saw a massive popular opposition movement take to the streets.
Plans to resume uranium mining on Native American lands in New Mexico have sparked fears of renewed environmental destruction, illness and death – along with racial tensions.
The first major investigation of Iraq’s Special Operations Forces, the largest special forces outfit ever built by the United States, which functions with near total impunity.
Tent cities like the one in Sacramento aren’t just creatures of the current recession – but products of years of smaller government and social service cuts.
Plan Colombia, the US aid package aimed at fighting the drug trade, appears to have channeled funds to palm oil companies connected to bloody paramilitary commanders.
The feds have left much environmental regulation to the states. But the coal ash spill in Tennessee raises serious concerns about whether states have the firepower to regulate corporate waste.
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s botched efforts to clean up its massive coal ash spill could kill entire fish species, creating a human health threat.
A peek inside Project HERO, an ambitious “public-private partnership” at the Veterans Health Administration could threaten the agency’s ability to provide top-notch care.
Despite PR claims of a new commitment to sustainability, the biggest coal companies have spent only a fraction of their profits to reduce carbon emissions.
A toxic Tennessee spill shows clean coal is an oxymoron: though technology can restrict atmospheric emissions, toxins simply get transferred into waste water and coal ash.
From Wal-Mart to Home Depot to the Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby has declared war on the Employee Free Choice Act — to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.
In post-Katrina New Orleans, armed white residents, shouting racial epithets, opened fire on passersby, shooting at least eleven African Americans seeking refuge.
Did the New Orleans police play a role in the grisly death of Henry Glover? Eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence leads straight to NOPD personnel.
A look behind Roberto Bolaño’s last novel, 2666, and the author’s relationship to reporter Sergio González Rodríguez, who risked his life to uncover the Juarez murders.
A multiyear investigation into Operation Speedy Express uncovers a pattern of civilian slaughter by the US military during Vietnam whose carnage dwarfs My Lai.
A 1972 Newsweek article could have exposed US killing of Vietnamese civilians on a massive scale — but editors there excised much of the reporting, fearing to antagonize President Nixon.
McCain’s tough talk on Russia belies his close ties with Russian oligarchs, including the role played by advisor Rick Davis in advancing Putin’s ambitions in Montenegro.
John McCain never misses an opportunity to tout his Vietnam POW credentials. Then why did he help suppress a real investigation into evidence of POWs left behind?
Drastic changes in immigration enforcement mean that undocumented immigrants who were once allowed to leave voluntarily are now being tried as criminals.
Conservation International attracted $6 million to protect marine life in Papua New Guinea. Instead, they secured little more than plush offices and first class travel.
The burden of proof rests on injured vets to show their wounds are “service-connected” before they can access benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The super rich fund think tanks and lobbyists to increase the distance between them and everyone else – while those at the bottom face the economic draft.
Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for Guantánamo’s military commissions, claims process was manipulated by Administration appointees to foreclose the possibility of acquittal.
Marines with PTSD tend to go untreated by the Corps, developing depression and substance abuse problems. When this leads to charges of misconduct, many end up jailed or discharged without badly needed benefits.
The Bush administration implicated Iran for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina, but a deeper look at the evidence finds no persuasive link.
Expert witnesses in terrorism trials often have deep ideological biases and shallow resumes. Many are also getting lucrative contracts from the Pentagon.
The operatives behind the campaign that smeared John Kerry’s war service have deep pockets – and they’ve given to Republicans from Mike Huckabee to John McCain.
Closing multibillion dollar tax loopholes for hedge funds is trickier than it should be — especially when Democrats like John Kerry get big donations from financial giants.
Former Alabama governor Don Siegelman was convicted of bribery and jailed after a politically motivated prosecution. How one whistleblower risked it all to reveal the truth.
Evidence of more than a dozen cases of soldiers who passed the rigorous health screening given recruits — and yet were diagnosed, after serving in Iraq, with a pre-existing “personality disorder.”
Congo’s tropical forests are the second largest on the planet, and they process staggering amounts of CO2. But the nation’s new political stability may put them at risk of deforestation.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton vows to defend Americans against the privileged and powerful, but her ties to big business compromise her populist promises.
Though the U.S. Army in Iraq is training the Iraqi Police, many worry that the militiamen who infiltrate the police cadre will use their newfound knowledge to turn on the Americans or rival sects.
Jeremy Scahill reports on the Bush administration’s growing dependence on private security forces such as Blackwater USA and efforts in Congress to rein them in. This article is adapted from his new book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books).
Will the mammoth contractor be forced to pay the U.S. government $400 million because they violated military policy by hiring Blackwater to provide security for them rather than the military?
Christian mothers who believe in the “Quiverfull” movement — domestic warriors against 40 years of women’s liberation — aim to have more than six children, arrows in the quiver of God’s army.
The executive branch is systematically being replaced by a conservative cadre hired by the Bush administration for their political views, not their merits.
The organic food industry, which prides itself on a gentler approach to land and the people who work it, is little different in its shabby treatment of a low-paid immigrant workforce.
Shorrock reports that AT&T, Sprint, MCI and other telecommunications giants are cooperating with the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program.
The Kurds have almost no natural resources and suffer from a culture of corruption. But their call for autonomy is a serious threat to the building of a united Iraq.