It has been a very bad week for democracy. In particular, it has been a bad week for Americans who have placed the right of the people to know what their

President Obama’s speech Thursday was eagerly anticipated by those of us who have worked for years to challenge detentions at Guantanamo and targeted killings a

“There are three kinds of lies,” Mark Twain was fond of saying: “Lies, damned lies and statistics.” Selectively presented statistics can be used as much