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Karen J. Greenberg

Karen J. Greenberg, a TomDispatch regular, is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law and author of Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump (Princeton University Press), soon to be out in paperback. Kevin Ruane, Claudia Bennett, and Ava Gagliardi contributed research for this article.

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The Real Failure of January 6th

How America’s Insurrectionists Crossed the Rubicon of History

By Karen J. Greenberg On January 29, 2023On February 1, 2023

Guantánamo’s First 7,627 Days

Will America’s Forever Prison Finally Close on Biden’s Watch?

By Karen J. Greenberg On December 8, 2022On December 8, 2022

The Ukraine Moment

Lessons from the War on Terror

By Karen J. Greenberg On October 20, 2022On October 20, 2022

Donald Trump’s Document Grab

Enhanced Secrecy Techniques Are the Order of the Day (and the Century, Too)

By Karen J. Greenberg On September 20, 2022On September 20, 2022

Can the System Be Saved?

Institutionalism vs. Democracy

By Karen J. Greenberg On July 17, 2022On July 17, 2022

The Empire’s New Clothes

The Veneer of Accountability Is Wearing Thin in Twenty-First-Century America

By Karen J. Greenberg On May 10, 2022On May 11, 2022

Our Ukraine Wake-Up Call

The Global Age is Upon Us

By Karen J. Greenberg On March 8, 2022On March 8, 2022

Guantánamo’s Forever Elusive Endgame

Will We “Celebrate” Its 30th Anniversary?

By Karen J. Greenberg On January 20, 2022On January 20, 2022

Are We Forever Captives of America’s Forever Wars?

What Needs to Be Done to Finally End Them

By Karen J. Greenberg On December 9, 2021On December 10, 2021

Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

No Accountability and No Apologies

By Karen J. Greenberg On October 7, 2021On October 7, 2021

The Endless Shadow of the War on Terror

Living With It Forever and a Day

By Karen J. Greenberg On August 22, 2021On August 22, 2021

America’s Accountability Problem

Is Anyone Responsible Anymore?

By Karen J. Greenberg On July 8, 2021On July 8, 2021

Can Guantánamo Ever Be Shut Down?

Dealing with the Forever Prison of America’s Forever Wars

By Karen J. Greenberg On May 4, 2021On May 6, 2021

Moving on from the War on Terror?

Checking in After Six Months

By Karen J. Greenberg On March 25, 2021On March 26, 2021

Donald Trump’s Failed State

America’s Daunting New World and the Coming Election

By Karen J. Greenberg On October 29, 2020On December 26, 2020

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

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