Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims crime has gone up in some U.S. cities because the Obama administration was too lenient in sentencing offenders. But the facts don’t back him up, according to Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, in Washington. “It’s discouraging that, in the 21st century, we’re making policy decisions based on sound bites and gut instincts rather than evidence,” said Mauer. “There is no lack of evidence to show that mass incarceration has been counter-productive to public safety and devastating for low-income communities of color.”
Israel's recent assassination of Hasan Nasrallah came as part of a terroristic campaign it unleashed on Lebanon, culminating in the bombings that leveled whole city blocks. Shock and awe has been…
Canada uses Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to exert soft power and maintain its interests in Haiti. Its "feminist" foreign policy promotes an imperialist neoliberal agenda that funnels money…
Rupert Murdoch’s paper helped elect Adams and hasn’t quite given up on him yet.
Maura Finkelstein was terminated by Muhlenberg College for an Instagram repost.
Dr. Jemima Pierre delivered these remarks during her keynote address at the Launch of the Kwame Ture Memorial Lecture Series on June 9th, Trinidad and Tobago, sponsored by the Emancipation Support…
