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Unspeakable Acts
by Lou Dubose | Apr 28, 2016 | The Interval…ay Tom DeLay’s first choice for speaker, Louisiana Rep. Bob Livingston, announced his resignation. Livingston, married at the time, resigned because Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flint was preparing a story that included accounts of four women who…
End the Shame of the Guantánamo Prison
by Lou Dubose | Apr 11, 2016 | Legal Affairs, National Security, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Garry Knight The plan President Obama released in February, to close the 14-year-old prison at Guantánamo, leaves in place some of the most egregious practices devised during the Bush-Cheney administration. Under Obama’s plan, there…
Trial Without End in Guantánamo
by Lou Dubose | Apr 7, 2016 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityImage Credit: Edel Rodríguez “We are attempting to practice law here,” Cheryl Bormann said. The defense attorney’s response to Judge James L. Pohl in a war court hearing was something close to resigned capitulation from a lawyer who appears to have…
The Secret To Trump’s Success
by Lou Dubose | Mar 25, 2016 | The IntervalImage Credit: Edel Rodríguez Six months ago, The Washington Spectator’s newly hired National Correspondent Rick Perlstein made a bold prediction. Donald Trump was not the momentary political curiosity most media outlets described. Trump was, in fac…
Paranoia’s Back in Style
by Lou Dubose | Mar 10, 2016 | Election 2016, PoliticsImage source: Reagan Presidential Library One day before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963, Richard Hofstadter was in London, delivering a lecture that a year later would appear in Harper’s as “The Paranoid Style…