A Vice episode was set to dig into DeSantis’s time as an officer at torture camp Guantánamo Bay. It was quietly dropped.

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

It's not just that the U.S. isn't doing anything about China's mass detention campaign. The U.S.-led War on Terror helped accelerate it.

A life sentence without the possibility of trial has become the norm at Guantanamo. A new lawsuit seeks to change that.

The military prison camp is reportedly allowing hunger strikers to waste away for longer times between feedings. It is a cruel, sadistic approach.