Robert Perkinson

Robert Perkinson is the author of Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire, forthcoming from Metropolitan Books. He teaches American studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.

Currently

  • The Prison Dilemma

    June 17, 2009 Subscribe

    Anne-Marie Cusac examines the punitive turn in the criminal justice system.

2008

  • Two Angry Men

    March 4, 2008

    Beyond the sensationalism and the sound bites, the Duke rape case reveals the perils of unchecked prosecutorial power.

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Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
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Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
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An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
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Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
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