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Today 3:45 pm
Kevin McCarthy Sinks Even Lower
He sells out a GOP House ally by opposing a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection. Is he afraid of what it will find?
Joan Walsh
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Today 5:00 am
Meet the Woman Who Would Transform the Nation’s Most Powerful DA’s Office
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is a vital cog in New York City’s vast incarceration machine. Tahanie Aboushi is running to change that.
Moustafa Bayoumi
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Yesterday 8:30 am
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Yesterday 5:00 am
The California Prosecutors Who Want to Keep People Out of Jail
In the state that once pioneered the punitive Three Strikes policy, a coalition of recently elected district attorneys is pushing back against mass incarceration.
Sasha Abramsky
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May 14, 2021
Larry Krasner—and the Future of the Criminal Justice Reform Movement—Is on Tuesday’s Ballot
The Philadelphia prosecutor who’s opposed police violence and mass incarceration faces an intense challenge backed by the police union.
John Nichols
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May 14, 2021
Tragedy and Hope on the Western Front
The imprisonment of Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen and the prospect of humane redistribution of wealth show California both failing and aspiring to its political promise.
Sasha Abramsky
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May 13, 2021
The FBI Investigates Rudy Giuliani
He can run, but he can’t hide.
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May 13, 2021
‘It’s Like a Black Hole’: ICE Has Been Holding Kids in Indefinite Detention
The agency has sent an unknown number of teenagers to juvenile jails and won’t tell anyone why.
Ashoka Mukpo
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May 12, 2021
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May 10, 2021