The War on Torture
Near the start of this year's Sundance Film Festival, at a panel titled "Why Art Matters," veteran television producer Norman Lear answered the question this way: "The arts start… More
Revolution at Sundance
I am here in Park City, Utah, for my first encounter with the Sundance Festival; I had expected starlets in ski boots and parties in which people said 'Darling'… More
Redford and Barkin Head PEN/ACLU Sundance “Reckoning with Torture” Event
Robert Redford and Ellen Barkin joined director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Fair Game) and an all-star cast Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival to… More
Doug Liman Partners With ACLU, PEN
Filmmaker Doug Liman launched his career with ‘90s indie films “Swingers” and “Go,” but in the past decade, he graduated to producing TV shows “The O.C.” and “Covert Affairs”… More
ACLU and PEN American Center to Present “Reckoning With Torture” at Sundance
The American Civil Liberties Union and PEN American Center, in conjunction with the Sundance Film Festival, will present a special performance of “Reckoning With Torture: Memos and Testimonies From… More
Commentary: Torture memos — Accountability everywhere but here?
Eight years ago today, armed with two legal opinions that gutted the prohibition against torture, CIA agents and contractors began the month-long "enhanced interrogation" of Abu Zubaydah in a… More
The Torture Memos: A Drama
Three Democratic House members at an event Wednesday evening read selections from the so-called “torture memos” and accounts by some of the prisoners and witnesses who alleged that torture… More
RECKONING WITH TORTURE: MEMOS AND TESTIMONIES FROM THE “WAR ON TERROR”
Eight years ago, September 11th transformed New York City into a crowded hive of anxiety. Since then, there have been innumerable changes in our lives. The obvious ones include… More
Reading American Torture
On October 13, a sold-out crowd at New York’s Cooper Union listened for an hour and a half to readings by such prominent writers as Art Spiegelman, Don DeLillo,… More
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