January 25, 2017Saturday's protests were inspiring but just the first step in fighting back against those who would end democracy.
November 11, 2016In the hours after Trump declared victory, some signs of hope and resistance.
October 11, 2016For the first time in an extended documentary former detainees at Rikers Island talk directly into camera about their experience in New York City’s largest and most notorious jail. RIKERS premieres on Nov. 15 at 10 p.m. on THIRTEEN.
September 26, 2016Rikers Island symbolizes the need for criminal justice reform and fails to reflect the ideals of one of our most progressive cities.
July 14, 2016"This is not your grandparents' reform effort," the Maryland Democrat says.
April 21, 2016When you are only beating Louisiana, something is very wrong.
April 14, 2016Many commentators said that terminating the controversial program would lead to a surge in crime, but the data tell a different story.
February 16, 2016It's been 15 years since Barbara Ehrenreich published her seminal book about what it's like to work for the minimum wage in America. Unfortunately, not much has changed.
January 17, 2016A beam of light will soon be shining into the darkest corners of Manhattan and Miami's luxury real estate markets, where the Treasury Department says the superrich have been anonymously stashing dirty money.
December 2, 2015This post originally appeared at The Huffington Post. There's an old corruption joke that you'll find variations of in India, in Nigeria, in China -- I've heard versions from everywhere. A bureaucrat from China visits an Indian counterpart and sees the beautiful home and asks, "how did you get this beautiful house?" The Indian functionary answers, "Can you see that bridge?" "Yes" "10 percent," says the bureaucrat, smugly. Then, a decade later, the Indian counterpart returns the ...
