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Karen J. Greenberg

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Now You See It, Now You Don't

On the danger that the US government's habit of redacting official documents poses to democracy.

by Karen J. Greenberg via Tom Dispatch on May 14, 2019
How Did the Constitution Become America’s Authoritative Text?

A new history of the early republic explores the origins of originalism.

by Karen J. Greenberg via The Nation on February 7, 2019

Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump

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George W. Bush giving speech

In the Shadow of 9/11

Two new books argue that the War on Terror changed American politics, but what if the sources of its violence were already long present in the country?

by Samuel Moyn via The Nation on September 7, 2021

George w. Bush delivers a speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished."

The Worst Crime of the 21st Century

The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.

by Noam Chomsky, Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on May 12, 2023

Donald Rumsfeld in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2005 (Jim Young-Pool/Getty Images).

Lasting Cruelties

A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.

by Lyle Jeremy Rubin via Dissent on March 30, 2022

9/11 was a Test. The Books of the Last Two Decades Show How America Failed.

The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.

by Carlos Lozada via Washington Post on September 3, 2021

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