Author Archives: Chase Madar
The Conservative Case for Universal Healthcare
Why in five years, the American right will embrace socialized medicine.
The Case for Clemency
To forgive prisoners is divine—or as close as government gets.
A Republican Against Prisons
Virginia’s ex-attorney general is taking on the incarceration state.
The Dirty History of Habeas Corpus
The biography of “negative liberty” encompasses a past rife with social upheaval and hypocrisy.
The Anti-Warrior
Micah Zenko brings peace to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Vietnam: A War on Civilians
On the 50th Anniversary of My Lai massacre, we’re re-visiting Nick Turse’s groundbreaking reporting on the atrocities that were covered up.
How State Secrecy Leads to War
And why Bradley Manning has done more for American security than Seal Team Six.
Legal Atrocities
Do the WikiLeaks war logs reveal war crimes — or the poverty of international law?
What’s Wrong With Rights?
Mary Ann Glendon challenges America’s supreme political values.
Dooley Noted
Listen to Finley Peter Dunne’s sagacious Irishman.
Blood on Whose Hands?
From TomDispatch: Bradley Manning, Washington, and the blood of civilians By Chase Madar …
Bradley Manning: American Hero
From TomDispatch: Four Reasons Why Pfc. Bradley Manning Deserves the Presidential Medal …
Torture’s Comeback
Don’t rush to credit waterboarding for catching bin Laden.
Libyan War: Legal, Multilateral, and Still Wrong
Why UN Security Council Resolution 1973 was no adequate reason to wage …
Tom Clancy’s “Brain-Dead or Alive”
By Tom Clancy Created by Tom Clancy’s Op-Center, written in collaboration with …
Ostrich America?
The ludicrous, destructive, curiously enduring myth of U.S. isolationism. By Chase Madar …
Guanatanamo, U.S.A.
America’s camp for terror detainees is not much of a departure from …
Obama’s Gitmo
Torturing the rule of law
Boy George
Exclusive excerpts from the former First Lady’s new book, Spoken from the Heart
How Liberals Kill
Harold Koh learns to love bomb power.
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