Waste Behind Bars Waste Behind Bars
Will the recession bring the justice-system reforms that progressives have long supported?
Jun 25, 2009 / Feature / Ari Melber
The Talking Helix The Talking Helix
DNA research increasingly allows us to collapse time and discover criminal guilt or innocence. That's why the Supreme Court's recent ruling against a prisoner's right to post-convi...
Jun 23, 2009 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams
The Prison Dilemma: Getting Past the Punitive Turn The Prison Dilemma: Getting Past the Punitive Turn
Anne-Marie Cusac examines the punitive turn in the criminal justice system.
Jun 17, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Perkinson
The War Against the ‘War on Drugs’ The War Against the ‘War on Drugs’
Economic necessity and shifting mores are changing the nation's approach to incarceration.
Jun 17, 2009 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Secret Courts Exploit Immigrants Secret Courts Exploit Immigrants
You don't need to go to Iran or North Korea to find secret courts. Try attending a US immigration hearing.
Jun 16, 2009 / Feature / Jacqueline Stevens
Confronting the CIA’s Mind Maze Confronting the CIA’s Mind Maze
With the departure of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from Washington and the arrival of Barack Obama, it may just be back to the future when it comes to torture policy.
Jun 9, 2009 / Feature / Alfred W. McCoy
Buchanan’s Bigotry Finds Home on TV Buchanan’s Bigotry Finds Home on TV
Pat Buchanan launches into paranoid racist rants in response to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.
Jun 4, 2009 / Video / Media Matters for America
Inquisitions Inquisitions
From Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, tales of the Devil and wise women, torturers and the tortured.
Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano
The CIA’s Truth Problem The CIA’s Truth Problem
Will the CIA tell Congress the truth? Would Congress listen if it did?
Jun 3, 2009 / Editorial / Tim Weiner
A Culture War Casualty A Culture War Casualty
Barnett Slepian was the last abortion provider to be gunned down in America, in 1998--until George Tiller.
Jun 3, 2009 / Editorial / Eyal Press