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Karen J. Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law and is the co-editor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib. She also edited The Torture Debate in America.

Missing in Action

Accountability Is Gone in America

By Karen J. Greenberg On August 2, 2020On August 3, 2020

Over There Is Now Over Here

America’s Pandemic Role Reversal

By Karen J. Greenberg On May 17, 2020On May 15, 2021

While Rome Burns

Trump Gets What He’s Always Wanted

By Karen J. Greenberg On April 7, 2020On April 7, 2020

How Democracy Ends

Not With a Bang But With a Whimper

By Karen J. Greenberg On February 27, 2020On February 27, 2020

The War on Words in Donald Trump’s White House

How to Fudge, Obfuscate, and Lie Our Way into a New Universe

By Karen J. Greenberg On November 21, 2019On November 21, 2019

No Fairy Tale

The Trump Administration’s Declaration of Inhuman Rights

By Karen J. Greenberg On July 25, 2019On May 15, 2021

Redacting Democracy

What You Can’t See Can Hurt You

By Karen J. Greenberg On May 14, 2019On May 15, 2021

Citizenship in the Age of Trump

Death by a Thousand Cuts

By Karen J. Greenberg On March 21, 2019On May 15, 2021

We-Are-Not-Them Exceptionalism

Creating a Global Lost Generation

By Karen J. Greenberg On January 22, 2019On May 15, 2021

America’s Mixed Messages

This Time at Sea

By Karen J. Greenberg On December 20, 2018On December 20, 2018

Justice Derailed

Brett Kavanaugh and the Echoes of Gitmo

By Karen J. Greenberg On October 14, 2018On May 15, 2021

A Children’s Gitmo on the Border

Heartless America’s Latest Nightmare

By Karen J. Greenberg On June 26, 2018On June 26, 2018

Down the Memory Hole

Trump’s Strategic Assault on Democracy, Word by Word

By Karen J. Greenberg On May 17, 2018On May 15, 2021

“Enemy Combatants” Again?

Will Washington Never Learn?

By Karen J. Greenberg On October 15, 2017On May 15, 2021

Where Have All the Children Gone?

The Age of Grief

By Karen J. Greenberg On June 15, 2017On May 15, 2021

Guantánamo’s Last 100 Days

The Story That Never Was

By Karen J. Greenberg On March 2, 2017On May 15, 2021

Liberty Is Security

By Karen J. Greenberg On October 2, 2016On May 15, 2021

Still in the Bush Embrace

What Really Stands in the Way of Closing Guantánamo

By Karen J. Greenberg On April 19, 2016On May 15, 2021

Fighting the Last War

Will the War on Terror Be the Template for the Ebola Crisis?

By Karen J. Greenberg On October 21, 2014On May 15, 2021

The Road From Abu Ghraib

A Torture Story Without a Hero or an Ending

By Karen J. Greenberg On April 27, 2014On May 15, 2021

The Five Commandments of Barack Obama

How “Thou Shalt Not” Became “Thou Shalt”

By Karen J. Greenberg On February 27, 2014On November 10, 2021

Learning to Love Torture,

Seven Easy, Onscreen Steps to Making U.S. Torture and Detention Policies Once Again Palatable

By Karen J. Greenberg On January 10, 2013On May 10, 2013

Will the Apocalypse Arrive Online?

How Fear of Cyber Attack Could Take Down Your Liberties and the Constitution

By Karen J. Greenberg On October 21, 2012On May 15, 2021

Ever More and Ever Less

By Karen J. Greenberg On March 18, 2012On May 15, 2021

Crisis of Confidence

By Karen J. Greenberg On August 21, 2011On August 21, 2011

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