The Vicious, Traumatizing Cycle of Parental Incarceration
Parental incarceration can lead to serious health and behavioral problems for children, in both youth and adulthood.
One Not-So-Minor Victory for Prison Reform
The Federal Communication Commission's cap on absurd prison phone call costs underscores the predatory rent-seeking of the prison-industrial complex.
The Body Language Behind the Presidential Debates
How candidates' bodies say more than their advertising buys ever will.
America Will Never Embrace Gun Control Under Barack Obama
Why Obama's election also yielded a strange new obsession with gun rights.
America’s Long History of Hiding Airstrikes
We prefer our death from above, where it's out of sight and out of mind.
Why the DraftKings Insider Trading Scandal Could Be Great for Fantasy Sports
If gambling isn't technically legal, how can we be sure it's fair? The case for making fantasy sports a better place for betting men.
The FBI Is Finally Taking a Huge Step in Fighting Police Brutality
In order to be heard, first you must be seen.
On the Poverty of Student Activism
A controversial op-ed at my notoriously liberal alma mater only lends more credence to the stereotype of the coddled American student.
#IStandWithAhmed and the Criminalization of the American Schoolyard
It's not just Islamophobia at play in the arrest of a 14-year-old boy whose only crime was bringing a homemade clock to school.
No, Black Lives Matter Isn’t Waging a War on Cops
The death of a Texas deputy embodies a common (and false) conservative rebuke of the new civil rights movement.