Barbaric and Excessive: Two Books on Punishment in the United States
Sabrina Alli reviews "The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences" and "Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness."...
Barbaric and Excessive: Two Books on Punishment in the United States
Sabrina Alli reviews "The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences" and "Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness."...
One Worshipper Is Not Superior to Another
A years-long visual investigation into how Iraq War blowback is playing out in Egypt, the second-largest recipient of US military aid....
Her Dark Materials: A Conversation with Vanessa Place
Daniel Elkind speaks to Vanessa Place about her provocative “You Had to Be There: Rape Jokes.”...
Warriors Without Guns: Yet One Way More to Think About the Civil War
In "Uncivil Warriors," Peter Charles Hoffer looks at how lawyers contributed to the coming conflict, shaped the issues, and helped prosecute the war....
A Comprehensive Guide to the Entertainment Industry
Michael Donaldson evaluates Corey Field's "Entertainment Law: Fundamentals and Practice."...
A Road to Ending Mass Incarceration?
Richard Blaustein reviews Greg Berman and Julian Adler's "Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration."...
The Mystification of Impeachment
Two books on presidential impeachment lay out the legal — not political — foundations of the ultimate constitutional trapdoor....
“A Republic or a Monarchy?” A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment
Should Donald Trump be impeached? Stephen Rohde reads Cass Sunstein to find out....
Arguing in Love
Diana Selig reviews Nathaniel Frank's "Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America."...
The Close Fight for Women’s Suffrage
"The ideas and attitudes that fostered opposition to women's suffrage are still with us." Adam Winkler on "The Woman's Hour."...
How Hollow Speech Enables Hostile Speech, and What to Do About It
Jim Sleeper considers the commercial and legal underpinnings of “hate speech.”...
DC State of Mind
Anthony Franze interviews M. Todd Henderson about his new book, “Mental State.”...