Governing through Crime

The BP catastrophe, following the devastating failures of security infrastructure protecting New Orleans during Katrina, is a warning we can...

Of course I understand the need to compromise. Comprehensive immigration reform will require massive doses of tougher enforcement. Fear of...

If we are to ever escape the gravitational pull of mass incarceration, we are going to need not just more jeremiads against our current regi...

The words of the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, one of the last great lions of the federal judiciary; a living example of what judges were lik...

Readers of this blog will know that I've argued for a long time that county government, with its more realistic view of crime and local ...

The Obama administration's desire to suspend Miranda warnings for terrorism suspects seems pretty minor today, as the administration ha...

It is difficult to ponder the facts, let alone the meaning of acts like the recent string of lethal attacks on kindergartens and other schoo...