Justice may finally be imaginable for Edna Glover and her family. The charred remains of her son Henry were discovered in the burnt hulk of a car on a levee overlooking the Mississippi River a week after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. But she’d never gotten any answers. 

Those endless wars on crime and drugs–a staple of 90 percent of America’s politicians these last thirty years–have engendered not merely our 2 million prisoners but a vindictive hysteria that p

David Dinkins, Susan Sarandon and other celebrities got the headlines, submitting to arrest at New York’s One Police Plaza to protest the death of unarmed Amadou Diallo at the hands of the NYPD’