Tara McKelvey
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2009
- Affiliation during program:
- American Prospect
- Country:
- Russia
- Year:
- 2009
- Email:
- taramckelvey@gmail.com
Tara McKelvey is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, a senior editor at The American Prospect, and author of Monstering: Inside America's Policy on Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War, which former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski has described as "a shocker...an indictment of an administration in which no senior official has been held accountable.” She was a 2006 research fellow at NYU Law School’s Center on Law and Security, a 2007 Ochberg Fellow (Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma), a 2008 Hoover Media Fellow (Stanford University), and a Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science and Religion (University of Cambridge). She has a AB in Government from Georgetown University.
Stories
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A New Start
For decades no one could enter or leave Elektrostal without the permission of the Soviet security services. After World War II, the city (whose name means “electric steel”) ...
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Evasive Maneuvers: IRP Fellow reports from “kidnapping school”
How do you dress for an abduction? That was the question on my mind as I prepared for my first day of kidnapping school—or, as it is officially known, Centurion Risk ...
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