The ever-diminishing advantages of a career in the law versus the undiminished enthusiasm of law schools to mint new attorneys.
Law and Justice
Prison’s Dilemma
Even if every convict were rightly sentenced, America’s vast, racially skewed incarceration system would still be morally indefensible.
A New Role for Parole
African Americans suffer from high rates of incarceration and crime. Here’s how to drastically reduce both.
Emmett and Trayvon
How racial prejudice in America has changed in the last sixty years.
The Conservative War on Prisons
Right-wing operatives have decided that prisons are a lot like schools: hugely expensive, inefficient, and in need of root-and-branch reform. Is this how progress will happen in a hyper-polarized world?
Broken in Hoboken
How the poor used to live.
Justice Served
John Paul Stevens’s Supreme Court tenure was marked by the firm belief that absolutism had no place on the bench.
The Unquiet Life of Franz Gayl
A tech-savvy Marine who made too much noise, helped save the lives of countless troops in Iraq, and paid with his career.
Bring Back the Lash
Why flogging is more humane than prison.
How We Train Our Cops to Fear Islam
There aren’t nearly enough counterterrorism experts to instruct all of America’s police.
So we got these guys instead.
