Our welfare reform experiment is little more than a confidence trick in which poor people get shuffled this way and that while their lives remain essentially unchanged.
Richard Goldstone's recent op-ed stirred controversy, but it can't undo the powerful effect his report has had on the international discourse on Israel-Palestine.
"I was forced to go to the court as I did not find any open minds, ears, or hearts from the Israeli government. I did my best for about two years to settle it peacefully."
This isn't the first time for human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay. Ten years ago, the U.S. detained almost 300 Haitian refugees, without charges, for a year and a half.
