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Law & Justice, Race

The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration

Two new books, including National Book Award nominee ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.

Vesla M. Weaver

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On Taxes

An experiment in a quintessentially American form of protest.

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Law & Justice

The “Active Shooter” Is the State

Moving from liberal gun reform to a truly radical movement will require us to make the connection between interpersonal violence and state violence.

Judith Levine

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

For American Corporations, Winning Is Not Enough

Standing Rock shows us that businesses don't simply silence protestors, they also discredit and bankrupt them.

Lauren Carasik

Law & Justice

No Rights Which the White Man Is Bound to Respect

The spectre of Dred Scott is haunting St. Louis.

Walter Johnson

Law & Justice

What Does Police Abolition Mean?

Abolition is not about transforming the police, it is about transforming the nation.

Derecka Purnell

Law & Justice

Policing: A Public Good Gone Bad

Policing as we know it must be abolished before it can be transformed.

Tracey L. Meares

Law & Justice

Whom Do Sanctuary Cities Protect?

Public safety is precisely why sanctuary cities are a good idea.

Lauren Carasik

Law & Justice

Slaves of the State: Prison Uprisings and the Legacy of Attica

A historian uncovered an archive of massacre at Attica—only to have the records disappear.

Robert Chase

Law & Justice, Race

How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth

Throughout the twentieth century, bipartisan consensus was that black youth were latent criminals in need of abundant policing.

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Law & Justice, Race

Mass. High Court Says Black Fears Matter

A Massachusetts high court ruling acknowledges that black men aren’t wrong for wanting to run from police.

Simon Waxman

Global Justice, Law & Justice

On Ice

Undocumented immigrants face horrible conditions in U.S. detention, with little legal recourse.

Colin Dayan

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

No Easy End to Prison Profiteering

The DOJ says it will stop using private prisons. The truth is more complicated.

Christopher Petrella

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