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Criminal Justice
May 30, 2017
Graham Vyse
Donald Trump’s war on civil rights is intensifying.
May 22, 2017
David Dagan
How Far Can Jeff Sessions Take His Crime War?
A memo from 1982 sheds a harsh light on the Trump AG's crusade for “law and order" 25 years later.
May 12, 2017
Graham Vyse
Jeff Sessions is bringing back the War on Drugs.
April 17, 2017
Magazine
Steve Featherstone
Professor Carnage
Dave Grossman teaches police officers to think like "warriors." But is the rise of a militarized mindset turning black citizens into targets?
April 6, 2017
Magazine
Mark Binelli
The Fire Last Time
An elite police squad was supposed to clean up the streets of 1970s Detroit. Instead, it terrorized African Americans, and turned the city into a battleground.
April 6, 2017
Magazine
Peniel E. Joseph
Why Black Lives Matter Still Matters
Three years after BLM launched a nationwide uprising against police violence, what's next for the movement?
April 4, 2017
Graham Vyse
Jeff Sessions is going after Obama-era police reforms.
January 19, 2017
Michael Eric Dyson
America’s Blue Wall of Terror
Why black people fear the police, and why white people refuse to believe it.
January 11, 2017
Graham Vyse
Two-thirds of our cops are in denial about police violence against black Americans.
January 4, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
Republicans think this might be the year for criminal justice reform, maybe.
December 21, 2016
Megan Carpentier
The Growing Movement for Marijuana Amnesty
As legalization spreads, so do calls to ease sentences for those convicted of possessing pot.
October 27, 2016
Dana Goldstein
Should 25-Year-Olds Be Tried as Juveniles?
Science—and law enforcement—are rethinking what it means to be an adult.
October 25, 2016
Graham Vyse
The Racial Divide on Perceived Police Bias Is Widening. Thanks, Trump?
October 14, 2016
Shima Baughman
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Christopher Robertson
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Sunita Sah
For Fairer Courts, Address Prosecutor Bias
October 7, 2016
Anakwa Dwamena
The two worst things about Donald Trump are that he can never admit he’s wrong and that he’s racist.
September 23, 2016
Jeet Heer
The most heartbreaking revelation in Rakeyia Scott’s video is that she suspected police would shoot her husband.
September 23, 2016
Brian Beutler
Trump’s White Supremacy Platform Comes into Focus
He promises the enrichment and safeguarding of white people at the expense of the principle of equal protection.
September 22, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Tulsa officer who fatally shot Terence Crutcher has been charged with manslaughter.
August 18, 2016
Eric Kleefeld
Private prisons really are a bad idea.
August 2, 2016
Steven Cohen
Bill Bratton’s gone. What’s next for police reform activists?
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