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FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a US Department of Defense official, US military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file) (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

President Trump is going to repeal Obama’s ban on torture-filled “black site” prisons: report

Matthew Rozsa
President Trump is going to return America to Bush-era human rights violations — or worse
FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Pfc. Chelsea Manning. For most Americans, Manning has been a hero or villain based on how they view her decision to leak classified material. For transgender people, she has another dimension _ serving as a potent symbol of their struggles for acceptance. With the commutation of her prison sentence by President Barack Obama, now set for release in May 2017, she and will re-enter a society bitterly divided over many aspects of transgender rights. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File) (Associated Press)

What will Chelsea Manning’s legacy be?

Sanjay Goel
The most lasting effect of Manning's legacy will likely be a powerful new fear of so-called “insider threats”
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Skateboarding will roll into Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Neftalie Williams
Skateboarding now has a global platform to promote a cross-cultural community and shared values
FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2017 file-pool photo, Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with the media in Paris. Defying Republican opposition, officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking. The official said John Kerry had informed some lawmakers of the move shortly before he left the State Department for the last time on. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File) (AP)

U.S. sent $221 million to Palestinians in Obama’s last hours

Matthew Lee, Richard Lardner
Funds will support humanitarian aid in the West Bank and Gaza, political and security reforms, and governance

Annual intelligence publication is a living nightmare of groupthink

Tom Engelhardt
"Global Trends" and the collective wisdom of the U.S. intelligence community
FILE - This June 6, 2013, file photo, shows a sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. In February 2009, the Senate Intelligence Committee gathered in a soundproof room to learn the stomach-churning details of the brutal interrogations the CIA conducted with its first important al-Qaida prisoners. The resulting report, a summary of which was released in December, was a rare instance of an oversight committee seeking to hold the CIA accountable in a public way. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) (AP)

Don’t be China, be us: Reviewing the latest collective “wisdom” of the U.S. Intelligence Community

Tom Engelhardt
Every four years, the National Intelligence Council releases a not-so-groundbreaking Global Trends report
(Reuters/Maxim Shipenkov/Christopher Aluka Berry/Photo montage by Salon)

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: The plutocratic evil twins claim to stand against the neoliberal economic order (they don’t)

Paul Rosenberg
UPDATED: Threads connecting Trump to Russian business and crime go back decades, may be the big secret he's hiding
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn walks through the lobby at Trump Tower, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Foreign policy disaster: Trump team threatens world security by escalating against Iran

Vijay Prashad
James Mattis and Mike Flynn both have bizarre obsessions with Iran
President Barack Obama tours the Egypt's Great Sphinx of Giza (L) and the Pyramid of Khafre (Pete Souza/The White House)

So much promise, so much disappointment: A Muslim bids farewell to president Obama

Jalal Baig
American Muslims embraced this cosmopolitan leader with an Arabic middle name — but his actual record was mixed
(AP)

Trump faces 4 areas of high risk conflict

Michael T. Klare
Trump's inauguration is particularly worrisome in our new world order, where personalities will collide
Barack Obama; Chelsea Manning (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/AP/Salon)

By freeing Chelsea Manning, Obama saved her life. Many other trans prisoners won’t be so lucky

Nico Lang
Manning’s freedom will be a major victory for LGBT rights, but other incarcerated trans people continue to suffer
(AP/Zach Gibson)

What Ben Carson doesn’t understand about “extra rights”: LGBT people aren’t asking for special privileges, just basic equality

Nico Lang
Ben Carson thinks extending more public housing benefits to the LGBT community amounts to "special rights"
(AP/Gerald Herbert/Evan Vucci/J. Scott Applewhite)

Why is Donald Trump resisting the Russian hack findings? Michael Flynn may hold the answer

Heather Digby Parton
Trump doesn't want to know about Russia. The unhinged alt-right views of Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon may be why
Scott Poteet, Draken International’s director of business development for U.S. Air Force Programs, speaks to the media at the intersection of North Las Vegas Boulevard and North Hollywood Boulevard after an aircraft crash near the area on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, in Las Vegas. An official says a veteran pilot had just completed an exercise with a military weapons school at an Air Force base near Las Vegas when he ejected as the plane went down. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP) (AP)

Year of the commando: U.S. Special Ops forces deploy to 138 nations

Nick Turse
The year ahead will offer clues as to whether Obama’s long war in the shadows will survive
"One Day at a Time" (Netflix/Michael Yarish)

This is it: “One Day at a Time” is the unifying family sitcom we didn’t know we needed

Melanie McFarland
Netflix's reboot of a Norman Lear 1970s classic is a family affair that everyone can get behind
Mural Depicts Donald Trump And Vladimir Putin in Lithuania (Getty/Sean Gallup)

A Russo-Trump alliance is a deal with the devil, but could make sense short term

Ryan Bohl
The Trump administration thinks an alliance with Moscow is just what America’s geopolitical doctor ordered
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visits the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/John Locher) (AP)

The real face of Washington (and America): It can happen here — in fact, it did

Tom Engelhardt
I can thank Donald Trump for reminding me of this essential truth
Reuters/Carlos Barria

Scranton in our hearts: Joe Biden may be leaving us, but his memory will stay forever

Matthew Rozsa
Joe Biden was the vice president we needed from 2009 to 2017
FILE - In this April 30, 1975 file photo, a North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, signifying the fall of South Vietnam. The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, to communist troops from the north. (AP Photo/File) (AP)

Reliving Agent Orange: What if casualties don’t end on the battlefield, but extend to future generations?

Mike Hixenbaugh for the Virginian-Pilot, Charles Ornstein
“To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan”
Al Franken; Donald Trump (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Evan Vucci)

Lessons from Al Franken: Can Donald Trump shed his entertainer persona baggage once in office?

Carrie Sheffield
Concerns over Sen. Franken's "SNL" career melted away after his 2008 election. Will Trump's reputation follow suit?
(Getty/Robyn Beck)

A reporter’s notebook: The journey to Oceti Sakowin, the protest camp of the Standing Rock Sioux

Charlie May
A young reporter makes his own way to the bitter showdown at Standing Rock and discovers authentic American values
President-elect Donald Trump gestures during a rally in Hershey, Pa., Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (AP)

Dystopian Donald: Will Trump make “1984” look like a nursery tale?

Tom Engelhardt
Can you doubt that we’re in a dystopian age, even if we’re still four weeks from Trump entering the Oval Office?
Michael T. Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for National Security Advisor, waits for an elevator at Trump Tower, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (AP)

Too many generals spoil democracy: Trump’s push to “win” with warriors is a loss for America

William J. Astore
Trump and his generals — Flynn, Mattis and Kelly — are likely to produce one historically stunning result
President-elect Donald J. Trump's choice for National Security Advisor, Michael T. Flynn, waits for an elevator at Trump Tower, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (AP)

Michael Flynn is making National Security Council staffers want to leave

Matthew Rozsa
Apparently career employees of the NSC aren't keen on working for a notorious conspiracy theorist
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