This year nearly 700,000 inmates in US prisons will be granted their freedom. And in a rare act of bipartisanship, a new law provides millions to rehabilitate them.
Another Middle East peace conference? Statesmen instead should have the moral and political courage to end the massive hoax the peace process has become.
Frederika Randall on Berlusconi’s return, John Nichols on fast-tracking Colombia, Jayati Vora on Patrick Cockburn’s Muqtada, Christopher Hayes on the new Israel lobby.