Imminent Threat
/A harrowing new study tries to determine why the myth of torture's effectiveness persists despite all the evidence - and despite a long line of permanently maimed victims. Greg Waldmann reviews.
Read MoreRomney After Florida
/After a brutal six months, Mitt Romney has won Florida and almost certainly the GOP nomination. Democrats and Republicans are rightly focused on his record, but they're each doing it for the wrong reasons.
Read MoreThe Apparatchik
/For two terms, first as National Security Advisor and then as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice was the most - often the only - likeable face of the George W. Bush administration. But does this quintessential team player break ranks in her new memoir?
Read MoreA Heartbeat Away
/John Nance Garner famously referred to the vice presidency as being not worth a bucket of warm, er, spit - and yet, during the two terms of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney used that office to wield unprecedented power. The former vice president writes an unapologetic memoir.
Read MoreA Brief for the Defense
/If you're hoping for a heartfelt mea culpa from an architect of two disastrous wars, this isn't it. Donald Rumsfeld's memoir is shallow at best, cynically self-serving at worst.
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