On
torture, I think the movie was frank, but it was frank from the
perspective of the torturer, and the torturer doesn't have to chill in a
stress position for hours upon hours. To that extent it invites us to
observe and move past the waterboarding in the same way we move by
mendicants, knowing of their suffering but never really dwelling on it.
Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections
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A State Department cable telling officials to avoid comments on the
“fairness or integrity” of most elections continues a U.S. turn away from
promoting dem...
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