The Torture Report struck by lightning

The Torture Report struck by lightning"The more who learn the truth the better off the country will be, because there is no better safeguard against the revival of torture than a well informed public." Jane Mayer, from the Introduction On December 9, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a report that strongly condemned the CIA for its secret and brutal use of torture in the treatment of prisoners captured in the "war on terror" during the George W. Bush

most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's solipsistic and poorly reasoned Copenhagen interpretation

George Chauncey offers an electrifying analysis of the history of the shifting attitudes of heterosexual Americans toward gay people

the brilliant tactician Napoléon Bonaparte has risen to power

ranging from politics and career to motherhood

As a founding member of Weiss's first company

that she can win her case

But the more I try to protect her from my pain

from quieting anxious thoughts and focusing the mind to cultivating the imagination

You'll experience the passionate speeches

revealing a woman determined to wield power in a world that denied her agency

austere restraint

an unapologetically cheerful view of black women that rescues their strengths and beauties from callous denial or cruel indifference