Yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham introduced S.J. Res. 48, legislation that will, if passed, create a constitutional amendment allowing parents to beat and torture their children without any legal consequences. The proposed amendment declares that “the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care
“Torture works.” That’s the repeated assertion, made without evidence, by President Donald Trump. How it works and what it achieves are things that Trump is unable to articulate. This morning, unfortunately, the world has a test case to see whether torture works. Amnesty International reports
Yesterday, while almost three quarters of a million Americans were marching through the streets of Washington D.C. in opposition to the newly inaugurated Donald Trump, Trump was giving a speech to members of the Central Intelligence Agency. Mostly, the speech was a celebration of himself,
