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#war on drugs
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • War & Peace
    The Failed War on Drugs in Mexico (and the United States)
    March 27, 2015
    | Rebecca Gordon
    Like the Islamic State, the Mexican drug cartels’ power has increased as the result of disastrous policies born in the USA.
  • Why Is the Gun Lobby So Powerful?
    March 25, 2015
    | Bernie Horn
    About half of all American households owned at least one gun in the 1970s. In 2014, only 31 percent had a firearm.
  • 11 Facts About America's Militarized Police Forces
    August 13, 2014
    | Alex Kane
    It's not just Ferguson -- the War on Terror has reshaped police departments across the country to look like invading armies.
  • Society
    Bill Moyers Essay: Alternatives to the Failed War on Drugs
    August 6, 1986 | Bill Moyers Commentaries
    Moyers considers legalized, controlled drug use as an alternative to criminalization.


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