“The dark art of interrogation”
Read an October 2003 Atlantic Monthly story about the thin line between interrogation and torture.
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“The moral debate about torture”
Read and listen to a May 1, 2009, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly program about the morality of torture.
“APA Rules on Interrogation Abuse”
Read a Aug. 20, 2007, Washington Post story on the American Psychological Association vote to prohibit psychologists from participating in several interrogation techniques that have been used against U.S. terrorism detainees because the methods are immoral and psychologically damaging.
“Catholic activists protest torture practice”
Read a May 1, 2009, National Catholic Reporter story about a rally of human rights activists in Washington, D.C., to support a criminal inquiry.
“Torture follow-up”
Read a May 11, 2009, “Sightings” column by Martin Marty that follows up on his earlier essay on torture and churchgoers; it includes a response from David Neff of Christianity Today.
“‘Zero Dark Thirty’ tortures the truth about interrogations”
A Religion News Service piece analyzing the portrayal of torture in the 2012 movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Dorothy E. Roberts
Dorothy E. Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Trish Maskew
Trish Maskew teaches adoption law, policy and practice at American University Washington College of Law. She founded Ethica, an adoption advocacy organization that works for ethical adoption practices internationally. She wrote Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child.
Randall L. Kennedy
Randall L. Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He wrote Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption, an examination of the role of race in those arenas.