Nick Turse

Nick Turse (born 1975) is an investigative journalist, historian, and author. He is the managing editor of the blog TomDispatch.com and a fellow at The Nation Institute.

Quotes

• In his heart, Simon Yakida knew he was digging his own grave.
  • Ghost Nation: An Ethnic Cleansing Campaign by the Government Threatens to Empty South Sudan , July 2017
• Investigators identified 29 members of the 173rd Airborne as suspects in confirmed cases of torture. Fifteen of them admitted the acts. Yet only three were punished, records show. They received fines or reductions in rank. None served any prison time.
  • A Tortured Past, August 2006

About Nick Turse

• It only makes sense in an academic culture in which transgression is by definition political and in which any kind of rage against society can be considered radical.
  • David Farber, on Turse's views about Columbine High School massacre. The Martyrs of Columbine: Faith and the Politics of Tragedy, p. 25.