States have a duty to protect civilians—and that requires transparency when they're hurt or killed, the UN special rapporteur on human rights argued.
James Fallows takes stock of Bush's effort to sell Americans on his "troop surge" plan.
A South Carolina judge vacated the convictions of the Friendship 9, nine black college students who dared sit at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961.
Three decades after the explosion, the construction of a $2 billion structure to cover the nuclear power plant's destroyed reactor nears completion.
Our country is made better, not worse, by young people reckoning with the full legacy of the institution.