Drug War

The war on drugs is like the classic mafia protection racket: our government creates a perpetual problem and then charges us exorbitantly to ‘protect’ us from it.

Why keep an undercover officer in play almost a year after the protests that put him into motion as a spy?

What do the war on drugs and market-oriented education reform have in common?

Stephen John Hartnett (author of Executing Democracy): The roots of today's debate about capital punishment, prisons and guns goes back to pre-civil war religious ideas that slaves must be …

Mexico's reception of President Barack Obama last weekend and of his immigration reform bill is decidedly mixed. The bill's emphasis on border security and its downgrading of family reunification …

Neill Franklin: While 45 percent of Americans oppose legal marijuana, 70 percent think enforcing federal drug laws is a waste of money.

Truthout interviews Marc Mauer, author of

The US criminal justice system has transformed into a tool of the national security state.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus unveiled a federal budget proposal March 13 that would stimulate employment, raise taxes on the wealthy, cut the Pentagon budget and reduce the budget deficit.

Research shows strict laws for juveniles do little or nothing to result in lower crime rates.