Other Writings

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  • “Sentence ‘enhancement’ for drug offenders is a tool of community destruction,” Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2016
  • “What can America learn from systems of incarceration around the world,” Washington Post, March 18, 2016
  • “Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote,” The Nation, February 10, 2016
  • Review of “Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’,” New York Times, August 17, 2015
  • “Telling My Son About Ferguson,” New York Times, November 26, 2014
  • “Getting to Work,” Sojourners, July 2, 2013
  • “Michelle Alexander to hunger strikers: You are true heroes for our times,” San Francisco Bay View, November 30, 2013
  • “The Zimmerman Mind-Set” TIME, July 29, 2013
  • “Teeming prisons create a permanent underclass,” Capitol Weekly, May 31, 2012
  • “When the Spirit Says Go,” Sojourners, March 3, 2012
  • “The Myth of Desegregation,” Time, February 3, 2012
  • Review: A Plague of Prisons and The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, Washington Post, October 14, 2011
  • “Think Outside the Bars: Why Real Justice Means Fewer Prisons” Yes Magazine, June 8, 2011
  • “Michelle Alexander on California’s ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Prisons” The Nation, May 26, 2011
  • “In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights”  New York Times, May 14, 2011
  • “The Failed Drug War Has Created a Human Rights Nightmare: How Can This Happen in Our Country and Go Virtually Undiscussed?” Alternet reposting from Sojourners, April 28, 2011
  • “Obama’s Drug War” The Nation, December 27, 2010
  • “The New Jim Crow: How Mass Incarceration Turns People of Color into Permanent Second-Class Citizens” American Prospect, December 6, 2010
  • “I’m a Criminal and So Are You” CNN, May 19, 2010
  • “The Age of Obama as a Racial Nightmare” TomDispatch.com, March 8, 2010
  • “Governor Schwarzenegger’s Plan for Prisons Ignores Racial History” Huffington Post, January 18, 2010