Mohamedou Ould Slahi tak pernah menyangka, bahkan tidak dalam mimpi terburuknya, bahwa sore itu ialah kali terakhir dia menjejakkan kaki sebagai manusia bebas. Dia datang ke markas kepolisian Mauritania dengan niat baik: memenuhi panggilan untuk dimintai keterangan. Namun, dia malah ditahan tanpa tuduhan yang jelas. Dia juga harus menjalani rangkaian interogasi, pemerasan informasi, dan penyiks…
Hillary Rodham Clinton s inside look at the choices and challenges she has faced is a subtle, finely calibrated work with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic, and historical forces in play around the world ("The New York Times"). In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, Hillary Rodham Clinton expected to return to the United States Senate. To her…
Ben S. Bernanke’s rise to chair of the Federal Reserve, the massive financial crisis, and the Fed’s bold and effective response. In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public service in Washington’s halls of power. There would be no time t…