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Articles tagged with crime-and-prison
Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.
The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing. But their desperation to prevent a public reckoning with the country’s racist past points the way toward how to fight them.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.
David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.
Angel Francisco Breard was executed by Virginia in contempt of a treaty that required his home country to be notified when he was first charged. What difference might it have made if the U.S. had obeyed the law?
King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.
Until COVID-19, tuberculosis killed more people each year than any other infectious disease. Its rising toll is increasingly fueled by mass incarceration.
We need to reckon with police lies not only as a form of individual misconduct but as a matter of political speech.
The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.
