Torturers don’t usually leave a paper trail, but when they do, they prefer it locked behind official secrecy acts. The Bush administration’s infamous 2002 memo on acceptable interrogation techniques ...

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides in Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition a timely overview of America's enduring and fraught ...

Ancient Rome: Torture is thought to give more validity to the confessions of slaves and other lower-class people. 12th century: The rise of political authority and discontent with the oaths, ordeals, ...

Laurence Ralph’s The Torture Letters recounts an extensive history of police abuse and violence in the CPD. A Chicago police badge hangs in front of the City of Chicago Public Safety Headquarters, ...

CIA director nominee Gina Haspel could face a tough confirmation battle after a number of lawmakers raised questions Tuesday about her past involvement in torture of detainees. A veteran of the ...

A couple hundred Chicago Public High School students crowded into a hall at the Chicago Teachers Union this week to watch the reading of a play on police torture in Chicago. It’s part of the city’s ...