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The former head of Army’s Media Relations in Afghanistan lets loose on the marketing of Osama, the coffin controversy, and engineering combat footage for NBC.

Laissez les mal temps roulez: Any PR is good PR.

Bonaparte's French Egypt and now Bush's American Iraq: both invoke the spirit of liberty, security, and democracy while largely ignoring the substance of these concepts.

The domestic snooping story doesn't end with the White House's bullying of an ailing John Ashcroft. Congress is still waiting for the FBI chief to answer serious questions about the administration's suspected abuse of national security letters.

H-2B visa abuses trapped guest workers in "modern slavery."

With not even a decade of this century behind us, we are already witnessing the rise of a multipolar world in which new powers are challenging different aspects of American supremacy.

When kids have behavioral problems—but not severe disabilities—experts say the best treatment is not boot camp, but plain old family therapy.

Radical behaviorist Matthew Israel has a one-size-fits-all solution to all variety of troubled kids: Document their misdeeds and discipline them—using social isolation, food deprivation, and electric shocks.

Health, Education, Headlines, Matthew Israel, electric shock, autism, mental retardation, behavioral disorders, psychiatric disorders, Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, Rotenberg Center Eight states are sending autistic, mentally retarded, and emotionally troubled kids to a facility that punishes them with painful electric shocks. How many times do you have to zap a child before it's torture?

From sugar-coated lollipops to electric shocks, the road to discipline. Jennifer Gonnerman talks with the Rotenberg Center's founder Matthew Israel.

Though some behaviorists endorsed electric shocks for kids who injure themselves decades ago, practitioners long ago moved away from that approach—except for Dr. Matt Israel.