What Is Torture?
An interactive primer on American interrogation.
Updated Sunday, June 18, 2006, at 8:13 PM
Slate turns 10 this week, and to celebrate the anniversary, we've dug into the archives and resurrected a few favorite pieces. Some of the pieces come from The Best of Slate: A 10th Anniversary Anthology, which was published this month. Others, including this piece, we chose because they highlight what Slatecan do as an online magazine that print magazines, newspapers, television, and radio can't. These pieces mix media, promote interactivity, show off the conversational immediacy of the Web, or otherwise take advantage of the medium. You can see a list of all the republished pieces, as well as everything else related to the anniversary, here.
Click here for an interactive feature about the U.S. military's interrogation practices since Sept. 11 and the Bush administration policies that have informed them.
Downlevel Monitors and Printable Version
For monitors with screen resolutions of less than 1024x768 pixels, click here for a pop-up window with scrollbars, or click here for a printable version.
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Emily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor and writes about law, family, and kids. Her forthcoming book, Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Empathy and Character. Find her at emilybazelon@gmail.com or on Facebook or Twitter.
Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for Slate.
Interactive feature design by Josh Payton.