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A U.S. military guard tower stands on the perimeter of the detainee camp on September 16, 2010, in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. There are now 39 detainees remaining after the prisoner transfer on July 19, 2021. John Moore/Getty Images
In a first since President Biden took office, the Biden administration has transferred a detainee at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Morocco, signaling a renewed effort to shrink the highly controversial prison s population â and possibly close it entirely.
The transferred prisoner, 56-year-old Moroccan citizen Abdul Latif Nasser, had been cleared for release by a parole-like board in 2016, but was held at Gitmo for another five years. In total, he spent 19 years at Guantánamo without being charged, making him one of Gitmo s so-called forever prisoners subject to indefinite detention.
The Myth of Measuring Democracy
How academics launder partisanship as political science Getty Images Aaron Sibarium • May 11, 2021 5:00 am
On April 5, two weeks after Georgia passed its controversial voting law,
Voxpublished a provocative headline: Study: Republican control of state government is bad for democracy. The study, Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding, was conducted by the University of Washington’s Jake Grumbach and outlines a comprehensive measure of democratic health based on 61 different factors.
The best predictor of a low democracy score, Grumbach found, was Republican control of state legislatures, leading him to conclude that the GOP is the main driver of democratic backsliding in the United States. He’s hardly alone; plenty of political scientists reached the same conclusion, using similar methodology, throughout the Trump era.