“The immigration problem” or “the border problem” has been a heated topic of debate and politicking in recent years. (This recent spurt is only the most recent in a series that goes back for centuries in U.S. history.) In large part this debate pertains to the entry...
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Security…or Surveillance? The Edward Snowden Interview
by Ron Paul | Jun 23, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
The heroic Ron Paul interviews the heroic Edward Snowden: In this wide-ranging exclusive interview, former intelligence analyst turned whistleblower Edward Snowden tells all. What to say to those who argue that they've got nothing to hide so nothing to fear from the...
Why Prison?: An Economic Critique (Article Review)
by Walton Green | Jun 23, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice
In a recent article in the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, Peter Salib seeks to critique the current prison system in the United States from an economic standpoint and suggest some desired features of an alternative system. Though neither the critique nor the...
The Castile Doctrine: Cops Without Consequences
by Thomas L. Knapp | Jun 22, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
On June 16, a jury acquitted St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez of all charges in the 2016 killing of motorist Philando Castile. That acquittal was, in a sense, also a death sentence — not for Yanez, but for future motorists unfortunate enough to...
The New Threat to Free Political Speech
by Thomas Eddlem | Jun 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
It’s said that tough cases make bad law. If so, Maryland’s prosecution of Dennis Fusaro and Stephen Waters for campaign finance law violations threatens to make some really bad law. The prosecutors themselves believe the case will “justify burdening speech and...
No Justice, No Peace, Abolish The Police
by Doreen Cleyre | Jun 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
On July 6th, 2016 Philando Castile was stopped by a police officer. Allegedly he was stopped for a broken taillight but a recently released dashcam video from Jeronimo Yanez's vehicle puts this notion in dispute. Instead, it seems like Castile was mistaken for a...
The Acquittal Verdict In The Philando Castile Case Is An Abomination
by Daniel Payne | Jun 20, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
It is a genuinely open question whether an American police officer can do almost anything without suffering criminal consequences. Americans have a profoundly stupid and misguided deferential attitude toward law enforcement, one which presumes that police...
No Place to Hide: The Church Committee Hearings Revisited
by Thomas Eddlem | Jun 19, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
The 21st century attack on privacy by the NSA, FBI and CIA casts the hearings by Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Otis Pike (D-N.Y.) during the early 1970s in a new light as a path to needed reforms. Hero whistleblower Edward Snowden told interviewers after he...
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