Marie Arago, special to ProPublica by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan The neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash…
By Nick Turse The following excerpt is taken from the afterward of Nick Turse’s new book, Tomorrow’s Battlefield: US Proxy Wars & Secret Ops in Africa [3] (Haymarket, 2015) JUBA,…
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. In a lecture at Harvard during my freshman year, a professor—who may have been Martin Peretz—offered an insight that left a profound impact upon me. “Citizen,”…
By Matt Ford After Ferguson, a noticeable gap in criminal-justice statistics emerged: the use of lethal force by the police. The federal government compiles a wealth of data…
By Henry A. Giroux (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)“Let’s hope it isn’t too late to listen, listen intently, carefully, minds open, hearts full. Let’s hope.” – James Baldwin In 1963,…
By Alison Fitzgerald Three months ago, then-Attorney General Eric Holder gave his prosecutors 90 days to determine whether they could charge individual Wall Street executives with crimes related to the 2008…
By April V. Taylor Presidential candidate Rand Paul is determined to make criminal justice reform a key issue in the 2016 campaign, and in his most recent move, Paul slammed…
By: Charles D. Ellison Ethiopian Jews demonstrate against police violence and racism in the third of such protests May 4, 2015, in Kiryat Gat, Israel. The previous Sunday, thousands of…
by MARK T. HARRIS The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., famously once said that a riot is the language of the unheard. But riot is partly a misnomer to describe…
By: Charles F. Coleman Jr. Law-enforcement officials sit at the scene of a motor cyle gang shootout at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, May 18, 2015. The shootout…
By: E.R. Shipp A woman faces down a line of Baltimore police officers in riot gear during violent protests following the funeral of Freddie Gray, April 27, 2015, in Baltimore. …
By William Astore US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to troops in Afghanistan in 2013. (Reuters/Mark Wilson/Pool) It’s 1990. I’m a young captain in the US Air Force. I’ve just…