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?
crime
Posted inBooks, Law and Justice, Magazine, September/October 2012
Broken in Hoboken
How the poor used to live.
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2012, Magazine
Fighting the Last War
As president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe triumphed over a fierce narco-insurgency. Then the U.S. helped to export his strategy to Mexico and throughout Latin America. Here’s why it’s not working.
Posted inLaw and Justice, Magazine, May/June 2011
Bring Back the Lash
Why flogging is more humane than prison.
Posted inLaw and Justice, Magazine, March/April 2011
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.
Posted inMagazine
It’s Not As Bad As You Think It Is
One of President Clinton’s main challenges in his second term is going to be trying to move the United States away from a self-conception as a nation in crisis. It’s a problem partly of his own making. In his 1995 State of the Union address, for example, delivered right on the heels of the big […]
Posted inMarch 1985
The Case for Brotherhood
Taking a hard line on crime doesn’t mean taking delight in punishment.
