BY CALLING the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "the gulag of our times" in the foreword to its annual human rights report, Amnesty International has garbled its own justified criticism of the Bush administration's extralegal detentions of terrorist suspects and its complicity in...

GULAG: A HISTORY1 The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has become the gulag of our times, entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law.3 In June 2005, Amnesty International's scathing comparison of a U.S. military detention center...

Attention, all of you out there with Adjustment Problems, with Bad People Skills. Bring me your tired, your Poorly Adjusted, all you with Serious Attitude Problems and Persistent Authority Issues. You who don't play well with others. I won't say our time has come, but...

Russian Orthodox priests consecrated a wooden cross Wednesday at a site south of Moscow where firing squads executed thousands of people 70 years ago at the height of Josef Stalin's political purges.Created at a monastery that housed one of the first Soviet labor camps and...