Crime and Prison
Prison Reform’s Shell Game
Hard-won legislation meant to limit or end solitary confinement has run up against the power of correctional systems to neutralize change.
Cop Cities in a Militarized World
The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.
A Climate Strategy of Last Resort
With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.
White Supremacists Aren’t “Lone Wolves”
The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.
Will Buffalo Change Anything?
David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.
122 Immigrants Face the U.S. Death Penalty. Only 2 of Those Sentences Honor International Law.
Angel Francisco Breard was executed by Virginia in contempt of a treaty that required his home country to be notified when he was first charged. What difference might it have made if the U.S. had obeyed the law?
What Makes Laws Unjust
King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.
How the Other Half Dies
Until COVID-19, tuberculosis killed more people each year than any other infectious disease. Its rising toll is increasingly fueled by mass incarceration.
Blue Lies Matter
We need to reckon with police lies not only as a form of individual misconduct but as a matter of political speech.
Why Policing and Prisons Can’t End Gender Violence
The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.
Twenty Years Later, Guantánamo Is Everywhere
The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.
Demanding Justice for the Living
Derecka Purnell discusses her new book Becoming Abolitionists, how she came to join the movement against policing and prisons, and what a just world looks like.
Probation Profiteering Is the New Debtors’ Prison
We must end the widespread practice of funding government budgets by extorting poor people apprehended for minor offenses.
Making Communities Safe, Without the Police
Effective responses to violence—preventing it, interrupting it, holding people accountable, and helping people heal—already exist. We need to learn from and invest in them.
Politics and Prevention
New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen may give the right—and its politics of racial resentment—a major win, at the cost of gun control laws known to prevent shootings.
Abolition Isn’t Only About Police
We also need to abolish prisons—as well as put an end to counterterrorism. An abolitionist reading list.
Reclaiming the Power of Rebellion
Derecka Purnell interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about her new book and how talk of “riots” discredits Black political demands.
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