Hooked on Trump: Impeachment, Extremism, and Addiction to Drama
This morning, House Managers are presenting the prosecution’s case at the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Much has been said, and will be said today, about the legal strategy
US Federal Politics
Posts on the intersections of national politics and criminal justice.
Series Review: Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
Netflix’s new docuseries about the hunt for Richard Ramirez, known as the Night Stalker, comes to our computer screens at an interesting cultural moment, in which national and state responses
Do Some Rich People Think Democracy is Beneath Them?
In case the horrific damage Trump and Trumpism have done to our democracy was not obvious from the horrendous crimes in plain view of the last few days (or the
What’s Up With the Pandemic Rise in Homicide Rates? Or, Beware the Lazy “Mass Releases” Take
There’s a really interesting op-ed by Jeff Asher and Ben Horwitz of AP Analytics in yesterday’s USA Today about the 2020 rise in homicide rates. Here’s an excerpt: The FBI
The California COVID-19 Prison Tragedy, in Four Snapshots
Something is rotten in the state of California. Rotten throughout, from top to bottom. In today’s post I juxtapose for you four pieces from the last couple of days, which
Carceral Permeability, “Pandemics of the Self” and “Pandemics of the Other”
If you told me before March 2020 that the entire state of California would be atwitter about two dinner parties at a fancy restaurant on two consecutive nights, I would