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Charles Rex Arbogast / AP The Creationist Style of Crime Control
When the director of the FBI questions public scrutiny of policing, he sends a profoundly anti-democratic message.
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The Legal Murder Of Tamir Rice
It should be increasingly clear that the police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice will not be tried; and should…
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Reuters Moynihan, Mass Incarceration, and Responsibility
Good intentions and deep sympathies cannot counter corrosive doctrines and destructive policy.
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Ben Carson, Bigot
Yesterday presidential candidate Ben Carson was asked if he could ever support a Muslim president. Carson, channeling a significant portion…
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Brad.K / Flickr A Critique That Misses the Point
Mass incarceration is a complicated problem—and deserves to be treated as such.
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The Case for Decarceration
It’s interesting. People often ask me if I think reparations will happen and my answer is, “Not in my lifetime…
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The Work of Generations
Hey, Jeff. Yeah that was a fun convo. I respect Mayor Landrieu too, though my differences with him were, I…
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Mass Incarceration and the Problem of Language
I think what we name things has meaning. I also think that much of the vocabulary employed in the world…
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A Note on the Moynihan Report, Black Women and 'Urbanology'
My piece on mass incarceration is long. I wish it wasn’t but it is. Believe it or not it was…
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A Family Weathers a Life Sentence
Odell Newton was 16 when he killed a cab driver. Four decades later, his family is still hoping for his release.
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Greg Kahn The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they've failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it's time to reclaim his original intent.
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Mass Incarceration, Visualized
Coming soon: The Atlantic's October cover story on the effects of the disproportionate imprisonment of black men
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NYPD Brutalizes Wrong Innocent Man
Earlier this week, former tennis star James Blake was manhandled and detained by the NYPD. The arresting officer had mistaken…
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Never Marry Again in Slavery
A short note about The Atlantic’s October cover story, “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
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The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality
In his October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how mass incarceration has affected African American families.
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There Is No Ferguson Effect
The Times has a story today on the rise in homicide in some American cities. It’s an important story—one which…
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When Malcolm X Met Robert Penn Warren
If you have a moment, check out this interview between two of the more interesting minds of the 20th century…
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It Was No Compliment to Call Bill Clinton 'The First Black President'
In 1998, Toni Morrison wrote a comment for The New Yorker arguing that “white skin notwithstanding, this is our first…
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Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars
In 1984, when Marvel premiered its mega-super-hero crossover, Secret Wars, I was lost. I didn’t know many of the heroes…
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Tell Your Stories
The author of Between the World and Me asks readers to submit their own experiences with racism and its physical consequences.