torture

A lawsuit against two former Air Force psychologists who developed the CIA’s post-September 11, 2001 “enhanced…

I’ve never been to hell, but I imagine it’s a lot like going to work and using an abysmally slow computer. That’s…

In the latest edition of scraping the barrel of the Snowden leak, The Intercept has released a trove of National…

Earlier this year, news broke that American Psychological Association had secretly collaborated with the U.S.…

A new report is accusing the American Psychological Association of secretly collaborating with the U.S. government…

The American Medical Association and the Red Cross both condemn force-feeding as a form of torture. And yet, the…

The good news: For those who are worried that the nation is more divided than ever, there's finally one contentious…

During the Middle Ages, torture was considered a legitimate way to extract confessions, punish offenders, and…

There may be as many as 80,000 American prisoners currently locked-up in a SHU, or segregated housing unit. Solitary…

In the summer of 1971, on the campus of one of the nation's top universities and under the supervision of a faculty…

To virtually no one's surprise, scientists are increasingly finding that solitary confinement induces a host of…

A suburban Seattle high school's co-ed cheerleading squad savagely beat initiates with golf clubs and pipes until…

The burial grounds beneath old gallows and scaffolds tend to be ignored by scientists. But owing to the work of a…

Add this to the ever-growing list of reasons to go back to sleep: a new study led by UC Berkley psychologist Amie…

Over the course of its 69-year history, the Soviet Union was notorious for its heavy-handed suppression of…

Japan's Unit 731 is one of the best kept and most horrifying secrets of World War II. Unit 731 experimented on…

It's Monday. For most of us, that means it's back to the grind — whether that grind be work, school, or some other…

Should you ever find yourself in the environs of Vilnius, Lithuania, you can sign up for 1984: The Survival Drama, a…

The Milgram Experiments showed that sixty percent of volunteers would help 'torture' someone if ordered to. What…

Three blades! Triple the effectiveness! And then Schick would come out with their Quattro Guillotine and then…