Trump’s actions in D.C. are authoritarian, but Democrats’ response has been feeble at best. That's because they don’t fundamentally disagree with police crackdowns.

Only a deeply broken society would create a mobile game like “Lands of Jail.”

"Defund the Police" came into the spotlight during the 2020 George Floyd uprisings. Despite what conservatives and pro-police propagandists say, "defund" never happened. But it should—because the police aren't here to keep you safe.

The nurse branded Britain’s most notorious serial killer is clearly not “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” And it looks like she may even have taken the blame for neoliberalism’s gutting of the public health system.

'Broken windows' policing was based on the theory that neighborhood disorder led to more serious crimes. But that theory has been entirely debunked, as law professor Bernard Harcourt explains.

The Native American activist’s continued imprisonment is one of America’s worst injustices.

If we want to keep people safe, we need institutions more like the fire department and less like the police department.

The New Yorker and the New York Times present “beautiful” stories of the human spirit in prisons. But why don’t we come away committed to ending the caging of human beings?