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  • Letters From an American
    US Sinks to New Low in Rankings of World’s Democracies
    March 29, 2021
    | Sam Levine

    The US has slipped 11 points in a decade – below Argentina and Mongolia – according the latest report by a democracy watchdog.

  • Letters From an American
    "Extreme Indifference to the Value of Human Life"
    September 25, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    The verdict on the Breonna Taylor trial comes in.
  • Justice
    Marshall: A Little-Known Story With a Well-known Hero
    December 8, 2017
    | Titi Yu
    Before he was a Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer battling the same forces that confront our justice system today.
  • Justice
    Michelle Alexander and Paul Butler Talking About ‘Chokehold: Policing Black Men’
    October 16, 2017
    A conversation about white supremacy, the criminal justice system and the transformation that's needed.
  • Inequality
    What Life Is Like After a Life Sentence
    June 23, 2017
    | Samantha Michaels and Jessica Earnshaw
    After 33 years behind bars, a man struggles with navigating the bus system, grasping the internet and getting a job.
  • Activism
    Susan Burton, a Modern-Day Harriet Tubman
    May 12, 2017
    | Michelle Alexander
    Reading her life story will change the way you view the world.
  • Poetry Month
    [Somewhere in Los Angeles] This Poem Is Needed
    April 17, 2017
    | Christopher Soto
    Poetry provides the constant opportunity to take a situation and cast it in a different light.
  • Justice
    Crimes and Punishments
    March 31, 2017
    | Donald W. Shriver
    Given our current mass incarceration crisis, one scholar wonders whether we need to reconsider the principle upon which our criminal justice system is founded on in order to make things right.
  • Justice
    Go to Jail. Die From Drug Withdrawal.
    February 17, 2017
    | Julia Lurie
    Welcome to the criminal justice system.
  • Justice
    The Time of Suffering
    February 15, 2017
    Bill Moyers reflects on the culture of cruelty in American politics.


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