Most countries today torture people. Torture is not an “aberration” of “a few bad actors.” It’s an habitual practice in many nations — including the United States.

No terrain is more difficult to defend than the moral high ground. As a rule, however, America has done a decent job of it. We are not the sort of people who use torture, nuclear weapons or cluster ...

Horrific details of Russian torture methods are being revealed through a new report set to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council. Methods of torture used by Russia today are reportedly very ...

Why do I study the history of contemporary political violence in Mexico? My answer has evolved across time. At first, I wanted to offer a basic accounting of what had happened: the who, what, where, ...

It's clear throughout history that the human mind lacks no ingenuity when it comes to thinking up hideous ways to torture or kill people. But this may be the worst in the history books. Rumoured to ...

At first, “A Question of Torture” will probably evoke the disturbing news photos of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. Images of hooded men, humiliated, victims of torture by the U.S. government — unnerving ...

Europeans were creative when it came to torture. They developed some of the most excruciating and slowest methods of torture in history, including the horrific blood eagle torture method. But one of ...

Everything was darker in the Middle Ages. People just seemed to generally be in an incredibly foul mood for about 1,000 years between 500-1500 A.D. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, culture ...