Jan 4, 2014 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Health & Wellness (Physical), Internet Culture, Marijuana Legalization and the War on Drugs
Published: mic (January 4, 2014) You may have already seen this headline all over social media: "Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado On First Day of Legalization" Already Twitter and Facebook feeds are abuzz with this news item, as right-wingers purr with delight...
Dec 2, 2013 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Race and Racism
Published: mic (December 2, 2013) We need to keep Kalief Browder in the news. Back in May 2010, Browder was walking home from a party in the Bronx when a strange man suddenly accused him of being a thief. Before he knew it, he was under arrest and facing criminal...
Aug 12, 2013 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Marijuana Legalization and the War on Drugs
Published: mic (August 12, 2013) On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department will stop imposing mandatory minimum prison sentences on a number of non-violent drug offenders. As he explained in a prepared statement: "I have mandated a...
Jul 14, 2013 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Race and Racism
Published: mic (July 14, 2013) More than a century ago, the French novelist Emile Zola drew attention to one epidemic of bigotry that was infecting his country. In his classic essay "J'Accuse," he pointed the finger of accusation at anti-Semites throughout the Western...
Jun 24, 2013 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Gender and Sexism, Science and Technology
Published: mic (June 24, 2013) Anyone with a passing interest in the politics of 2012 will recall the drivel spewed by the likes of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock on so-called "scientific" facts about rape. Ironically, though, there IS recent scientific work that has...
May 27, 2013 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Race and Racism
Published: mic (May 27, 2013) After facing a wave of controversy for their decision to release Trayvon Martin's private cell phone records to the public, George Zimmerman's attorneys are defending themselves by claiming they merely wish to demonstrate that Martin...
Mar 30, 2013 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Gender and Sexism, Gun Control
Published: mic (March 30, 2013) One might hope that a law which keeps guns out of the hands of perpetrators of domestic violence would receive bipartisan support. One would think. As reported by the Huffington Post, "a Colorado bill that prohibits convicted domestic...
Mar 10, 2013 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Marijuana Legalization and the War on Drugs, President Obama
Published: mic (March 10, 2013) The marijuana editorial you are about to read begins with a recent speech by Ron Paul and ends with a tongue-lashing penned more than a century ago by a presidential prostitute. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Last Friday, former...