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President-elect Donald J. Trump would face legal challenges to following through on his campaign promise to bring back brutal interrogation practices. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times

Donald Trump Faces Obstacles to Resuming Waterboarding

by MATT APUZZO and JAMES RISEN | Nov 30, 2016 | Features

WASHINGTON — In the first few months of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, if recent history is any guide, intelligence officials will meet to discuss a terrorism suspect living abroad. This suspect might become the next target for the nation’s not-so-secret drone force....

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Opinion: Americans Facing a Hobson’s Choice

by Amir Taheri | Aug 12, 2016 | Opinion

Anyone following the debate in the US media and political circles these days might form the impression that a supposedly golden age is about to end and that something absolutely disastrous is about to be unleashed. The elites are obviously in a bad mood. The reason...

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Fred Schindler used his reverse mortgage to pay off the last bit of his original mortgage on his condo and to open a line of credit. Jeff Swensen for The New York Times

Millions of Americans Won’t Have Enough Money to Retire

by Ron Lieber | Jun 18, 2016 | Business

Pittsburgh-If you don’t have a reverse mortgage and don’t know anyone who does, your familiarity with the product probably comes from television commercials. There, often late at night, Pat Boone and Henry Winkler have peddled them with great sincerity. Sound sketchy?...

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NY Psychoanalyst: “Partial Secrets” on the 9/11 Attacks Stoke Americans’ Fears About Terrorism

by Joseph Braude | May 8, 2016 | World

Psychoanalyst Ira Moses is Director of Training at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry in New York City. What is the impact of the classification of the “28 pages” concerning the 9-11 attacks on Americans’ perceptions of their government? Sigmund Freud...