Torture
This Week in Fiction
Clare Sestanovich on Routine and Rupture
The author discusses “Our Time Is Up,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine.
This Week in Fiction
Junot Díaz on Writing as an Act of Faith
The author discusses “The Ghosts of Gloria Lara,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.
Shouts & Murmurs
My Torture Ideas
Dispatch
The Prisoners in a Cellar in the Ukrainian Village of Novyi Bykiv
A pattern of indiscriminate violence committed by Russian forces appears to have taken hold in a number of towns and villages in the Kyiv region.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Living in the Shadow of Guantánamo Bay
The U.S. tortured Mohamedou Salahi and kept him at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years. He’s no Al Qaeda mastermind, but, even today, he’s virtually a prisoner. Why won’t we let him go?
The Political Scene Podcast
Living in the Shadow of Guantánamo
The U.S. tortured Mohamedou Salahi and kept him at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years. He’s no Al Qaeda mastermind, but, even today, he’s virtually a prisoner.
Q. & A.
A Times Reporter Documents the Horror of Syria’s Torture Sites
Anne Barnard talks about how Syria’s prisons have changed, whether the Western focus on ISIS warped our understanding of the Syrian civil war, and the long-term consequences of systemized torture.
News Desk
The Network: Russia’s Odd, Brutal, and Maybe Invented Pre-World Cup Terrorism Case
Human-rights groups say that Putin’s intelligence agents jailed and tortured young men for an alleged plot that seems never to have existed.
Our Columnists
Gina Haspel and the Enduring Questions About Torture
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 29th
“Talk! Or we’ll make you watch the State of the Union.”
Amy Davidson Sorkin
Mike Pompeo and the Question of Torture
Daily Comment
The Escalating Slurs of Donald Trump
News Desk
How Did Abu Zubaydah Lose His Eye?
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 1st
Maria Konnikova