Experts in the intelligence community say that torture is ineffective. Yet much of the public appears unconvinced: surveys show that nearly half of Americans th

Why do people persist in supporting torture--and can they be persuaded to change their minds? Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young draw upon a novel series of gro

Hoisted by their own petards.

Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the pol

A powerful indictment, American Methods is "not about Abu Ghraib; this is a book about the USA."