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Colin Dayan is Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. Her books include The Law Is a White Dog, The Story of Cruel and Unusual, and Haiti, History, and the Gods.
Long before Joe Arpaio became a household name, he was busy reinventing chain gangs, criminalizing detainees, and persecuting anyone who crossed his path. A series of exclusive photos from 1995 takes us back.
Undocumented immigrants face horrible conditions in U.S. detention, with little legal recourse.
On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.
Jonathan Katz has written the book about the Haitian earthquake. How does he contextualize the tragedy in the country's history?
Talking about Gaza is like talking about God. We face the ineffable. We cannot talk about what we see.
He taught us all how to read carefully, argue passionately, and write responsibly.
I went back to Haiti on August 15, a year and a half after the earthquake. The place where I had lived on and off since the summer of 1970 was unrecognizable. But the politics were familiar.
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