Criminal Justice

Celebrate Equity!

Celebrate Equity! Celebrate Equity!

Street art in Cambridge Mass. Photo by Peter Kuper.

Oct 12, 2023 / OppArt / Anonymous

Volunteer Rojauna McPherson looks at a table full of pamphlets after being trained as a new volunteer at one of the

It’s Time to Abolish Grand Juries Once and for All It’s Time to Abolish Grand Juries Once and for All

Whether they’re targeting Donald Trump or Cop City protesters, grand juries are an irredeemable and unaccountable tool of state prosecutorial power.

Sep 27, 2023 / Chava Shapiro and James Clark

Donald Trump poses for a picture at a South Carolina gun store.

The Supreme Court Could Soon Let Trump Buy All the Guns He Wants The Supreme Court Could Soon Let Trump Buy All the Guns He Wants

Trump is currently prohibited from buying guns because he’s under criminal indictment. But two big court cases could change that.

Sep 26, 2023 / Elie Mystal

How Georgia Indicted a Movement

How Georgia Indicted a Movement How Georgia Indicted a Movement

The state’s prosecution of Stop Cop City protesters is astonishingly honest in its ambitions to crush Georgia’s left.

Sep 12, 2023 / Zohra Ahmed and Elizabeth Taxel

September 11, 22nd Anniversary

September 11, 22nd Anniversary September 11, 22nd Anniversary

Militants associated with al-Qaeda carried out the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S. history, resulting in almost 3,000 people killed in New York, Washington DC,...

Sep 11, 2023 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

A black and white photo of two people handing out Narcan.

In Defense of Drug Decriminalization—Yes, in Oregon In Defense of Drug Decriminalization—Yes, in Oregon

By passing Measure 110, Oregonians sought to begin undoing the harms caused by over 50 years of a failed War on Drugs. Those harms won’t be fixed overnight.

Sep 8, 2023 / Abdullah Shihipar, Alexandria Macmadu, and Brandon D.L. Marshall

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaks during a press conference to announce new efforts to curb recent retail thefts on August 17, 2023.

Progressives Need to Have Real Answers on Crime Progressives Need to Have Real Answers on Crime

California shows that unless the left acknowledges the need to make communities safe while maintaining support for criminal justice reform, right-wing demagogues will latch onto t...

Sep 1, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky

Photographs of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger displayed during “Secrets of State: The Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship,” an exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile.

Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide

Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be dec...

Aug 31, 2023 / Peter Kornbluh

Trump’s Treason

Trump’s Treason Trump’s Treason

Mounting indictments, crumbling democracy.

Aug 29, 2023 / OppArt / Ratt

vivek ramaswamy speaks at FOX news republican primary debate

The Limits of Vivek Ramaswamy’s Racist Con Game The Limits of Vivek Ramaswamy’s Racist Con Game

While the emerging GOP star benefits from the right’s version of affirmative action, his ugly response to the Jacksonville shootings shows the cost—and constraints—of his strategy.

Aug 28, 2023 / Jeet Heer

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