Governing through Crime

"Remember, remember, the Fourth of November" There is a lot to be sorry about what happened Tuesday, especially Prop 8 and 9 here ...

I'm reminded this morning of a poster that resided on my bedroom wall sometime in the mid-1970s. My father had brought it back from a t...

Yesterday Detroit's former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, began serving a four month sentence in the Wayne County jail. There is plenty of dr...

For a while now I've been pumping the theme that American society will only overcome mass incarceration and its attendant pathologies by...

As the Presidential campaign comes down to its last days with Senator Obama enjoying a comfortable lead, the McCain campaign is making one l...

We are at extraordinary change moment in American history, far more so than when the planes hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon eigh...

After forty years of governing through crime, it is clear that to be a full citizen of the United States, you need to be a crime victim. It...