July 2013

This is a fuller, more detailed version of the above essay, on the history of the U. S. naval base at Guantánamo.

The New Yorker (July 2013) This essay tells the story of the U. S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, emphasizing the ways that controversies over its uses and legal status have long and troubling histories.  US access to the bay emerged from coercive diplomacy between the U. S. and…