History & Politics

The New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer has written what I consider indispensable reading for every American. Here is a detailed account of how U.S. policy has damned its credibility by pursuing an anti-terrorist crusade that erodes and devalues the basic foundations of our constitution. She couples arguments from traditionally conservative experts like high-ranking military officials with traditional liberal Chomsky-ish arguments that support her condemnation of the United States’ failed war on terror. —Adrienne Mages