Highlights and recommended reading about the Senate's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation programs.

Five bedrock assumptions that are warping American policy in the Middle East.

The short, strange era of human civilization may be drawing to a close, writes Noam Chomsky.

Immigration case backlog has increased nearly 120 percent since 2006, and more than 30 positions for judges are still vacant. Here's how the courts became so ill-equipped.

In the US, most of the analysis of what's happening in Iraq comes to us from Americans. We asked an Iraqi expat for his view.

ProPublica's interactive timeline tracks Bush administration policies on torture, detention and surveillance to see how much they've changed under President Obama.

The declassified 2006 memo reflects strong disagreement within the Bush administration over the constitutionality of enhanced interrogation techniques.

Bill talks to journalist Jane Mayer about whether the U.S. sanctioned torture to prosecute the war on terror.

Bill talks with professor Charles Fried and author Fritz Schwar on growing executive branch power in the name of national security.

Bill reflects on Karl Rove's legacy.