How mass media declares murder—or not—in a small town.
A conversation between Executive Director of the Correctional Association of New York, Soffiyah Elijah, and filmmaker Hyatt Bass.
An open letter to Argentine President Ing. Mauricio Macri and the Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
How the media hide undocumented workers.
How the “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster became a global design icon.
A look at creative humanitarian projects happening around the world
Police records can haunt a lifetime, but they don’t have to.
Artists and community organizers discuss racial segregation, social justice, and filling in the gaps of our public school system.
A historical perspective on language and the criminalization of African Americans.
The risky story-telling complicit in the public discourse on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
Occupy Wall Street artist pens interactive online comic about Vietnamese refugees
Faced with a shortage of killer drugs, Texas executioners have begun manufacturing their own pentobarbital, a lawsuit charges.
America’s racist and rapacious War on Drugs travels abroad.
Photographs of inquiry and discourse across San Francisco.
We should take down the Confederate flag, but racism has always been and continues to be a national issue. A case study of Crandall v. State before the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1834 serves as a prime example.
A woman in white came up to us and said, “You’re welcome here. Everyone is welcome here.” She motioned us into the sanctuary, Carol included, who kept on with her act like a road-show vaudevillian.
Boris Nemtsov had the courage to demand justice in Russia and to challenge Putin's regime; it cost him his life.
The Jeffrey Sterling trial shows the U.S. government to be committed to deception about the Iranian nuclear program.
What the explosion in private political spending means now, five years after Citizens United.
The sociologist on turning the focus of the reproductive rights movement from abortion to love, sex, family, and community.
Despite U.S.-backed violence against them, the Rio Blanco community is fighting back.
In order to pay for his son Cole’s life-saving surgery, he transported meth. But he got caught.
One writer's reflections on country’s resilience, a bomber’s sanity, a government’s inertia.
Why the book I Am Malala is too simple an answer, the narrator too quick a martyr and the narrative too slyly an ode.
On the power of silence, submission to force-feeding, and the first suicides in Guantánamo.
Crime and punishment and “disapproved content.”
A former prosecutor reflects on wrongful convictions, Damien Echols's memoir, and the importance of prison arts programs.
Flash Fiction from PEN's Prison Writing Contest: I have written 721 pages of letters to you. The paper I write letters to you on is 8' x 10.5'. I hate that.
A former assistant district attorney reflects on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer and the intimacy of the handwritten word.
The activist, educator, and former leader of the Weather Underground on upholding revolutionary principles in “non-revolutionary times.”
Why the term "amnesty" gets hurled at undocumented workers while plenty of corporate lawbreakers escape legal penalties.
The problem with the "but this is the law" response.
The Pulitzer Prize winner on human rights work and playwriting, telling stories that are "profoundly unheard," and why she thinks a lot of writing about Africa amounts to little more than "pornography."
The cultural historian on the rhetoric of freedom, bossy white women, and the prospects of beating patriarchy by 2040.
Jabati Mambu, a Sierra Leonean severely wounded in the civil war, watches as the Hague hands down a war crimes verdict.
Sending debt oeonage, poverty, and freaky weather into the arena.
