I think when non-targeted individuals are killed in a raid, or when a person is shot in the course of a routine traffic stop, itâs seen as a kind of âcollateral damage,ââ Keller says…
I think when non-targeted individuals are killed in a raid, or when a person is shot in the course of a routine traffic stop, itâs seen as a kind of âcollateral damage,ââ Keller says…
âThe banks have gotten absolutely everything they wanted, post-crash,â my lobbyist friend explained. The 2010 SAFE bill, through which Senators Sherrod Brown and Ted Kaufman attempted to break up the too-big-to-fails?
In 2012, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that New York City would be the site of a new experiment very dear to his billionaireâs heart.
For those possessing any insight into the sort of fiction that details the utter bitterness of being young, black and male in a large American city, Johnnie Peterson…
In the 10 years since People For the American Way Foundation started a program to support the next generation of progressive leaders, we have seen what can happen when organizations make real investments in young people.
And, people are also talking about the need for a guaranteed national income.
Ever since marijuana was banned by the federal government in the 1930s, proponents of prohibition have insisted that cannabis must remain illegal to protect Americaâs children.
Among opinion writers, Jonathan Chait is outranked in my esteem only by Hendrik Hertzberg. This lovely takedown of Robert Johnson is a classic of the genre, one I studied incessantly when I was sharpening my own sword. The sharpening never ends. With that in mind, it is a pleasure to engage Chait in the discussion over President Obama, racism, culture, and personal responsibility. It’s good to debate a writer of such clarityâeven when that clarity has failed him.
Lupita Nyongâo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche have me thinking about Black women, beauty, feminism, policing of bodies, etc.
Supporters of legalized marijuana light up at exactly 4:20 p.m. in Civic Center Park April 20, 2012, in Denver.
The Hon. Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and current Chairman of the Caribbean Community of Nations (CARICOM), will present the keynote address at a national/international forum entitled âRevitalizing the Reparations Movementâ at Chicago State University on Saturday, April 19, 2014.
Last week, Buzzfeed published an article citing âbipartisan optimismâ about prison reform. This weekend, the New York Times editorialized that out of this dysfunctional Congress âthere may come one promising and unexpected achievement: the first major reforms to Americaâs broken criminal justice system in a generation.â On Monday, it was USA Todayâs turn to deliver the âgood newsâ of reform. It appears then that folks in the Beltway and in the media are currently optimistic about criminal legal reform. The optimism has also spread to states like Louisiana, New York and Texas.