Irin Carmon writes for Salon.com: “I’m a reporter covering women and politics and culture. But in a welcome freedom afforded by the Internet’s potential for full disclosure and genre complication, I’ve stopped pretending I don’t think that some policy id…
Clarissa Ramon of Public Knowledge writes on Huffington Post: “There are roughly 2.7 million children with one or more parents in the incarceration system in the U.S. today. As a result of this, these children are more likely to experience poverty and un…
Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic senate candidate in Massachusetts, drew roaring cheers, applause, and even tears tonight at the Democratic Convention when she laid out the differences between corporations and people.
Leslie Savan writes for The Nation: “[T]he Obama administration recently announced that states could apply for waivers from the 1996 welfare reform law in order to find alternative ways to help welfare recipients find work. Nothing is gutted, the work re…
Abigail Pesta writs for The Daily Beast: “[Detroit Prosecutor Kym] Worthy is leading a charge to investigate more than 11,000 police ‘rape kits’ — which contain swabs of semen, saliva, and other evidence of rape — so the rapists can be brought to justi…