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Maya Sen: Why federal courts are unlikely to save democracy from Trump’s and Musk’s attacks

The Trump administration is moving much faster than courts do, or even can.

February 15, 2025 · 6 Comments

Sonali Kolhatkar: Abolishing the Nation’s Largest Jail System

L.A. County activists are working to replace violent jails with mental health facilities, and to reallocate funding from incarceration toward social services.

December 20, 2022 · 1 Comment

Matthew J. Parker: Taxation by Citation

The collateral damage caused by the Pledge is everywhere, from crumbling infrastructure and piss poor cyber security to underfunded police and debtors’ jails. 

December 14, 2022 · 2 Comments

Video: America’s prisons are broken. Just ask John Oliver and several puppets.

America has more people in prison than any country in the history of the world. How could things have gone so wrong?

July 21, 2014 · Leave a comment

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