Karen J. Greenberg

Karen J. Greenberg is a noted expert on national security, terrorism, and civil liberties. She is Director of the Center on National Security and is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford University Press, 2009), which was selected as one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post and Slate.com. Her 2016 book, Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State (Crown), explores the War on Terror's impact on justice and law in America. Follow her on Twitter at @KarenGreenberg3

Congress

Trump’s War on our Language: Fudging, Waffling and Lying weave Alternative Universe

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com ) – These days, witnessing the administration’s never-ending cruelty at the border, the shenanigans of a White House caught red-handed in attempted bribery in Ukraine, and the disarray of this country’s foreign policy, I feel like I’m seeing a much-scarier remake of a familiar old movie. The cast of characters and the headlines […]

Immigration

What the Child Detentions at the Border Really Tell Us about Trumpism

Karen J. Greenberg

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Lately, I’ve been thinking about the Grimm’s fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel. Terrified by cruel conditions at home, the brother and sister flee, winding their way, hungry and scared, through unknown woods. There, they encounter an old woman who lures them in with promises of safety. Instead, she locks one of […]

censorship

How Democracy Dies: Big Brother is Erasing the Public Record

Karen J. Greenberg

The post-9/11 period stands out in American history for its relentless reliance on redacting material in government reports

Donald Trump

Statue of Liberty, R. I. P.: Trump and the End of Citizenship

Karen J. Greenberg

Halfway through Trump’s presidency, his administration has moved to use citizenship as an exclusionary factor

Children

Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Karen J. Greenberg

Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers

Pentagon

The New Role of the US Navy as Brig for the World

Karen J. Greenberg

During the first 20 years of the drug interdiction program, the U.S. detained around 200 individuals per year on board ships.

Supreme Court

How Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings

Karen J. Greenberg

(Tomdispatch.com) – Amid the emotional hubbub over the predictable confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, there has been a largely overlooked casualty: the American judiciary. It’s not the end result alone — his addition to the highest bench in the land where he will sit for life — that promises to damage the country, but the unprofessional, […]

Immigration

TrumpWorld: A Vast Guantanamo Bay just for Children

Karen J. Greenberg

A requiem for a tragedy that has barely ended (if it has)

Donald Trump

How Trump’s 2000 lies are Termites chomping at the Foundations of Democracy

Karen J. Greenberg

We are facing an incremental dismantling of our institutions