Congress and the Press Should Pick Up Where Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller Left Off
The anticlimactic end of the Trump-Russia investigation is partly due to decades of bitter political battles over what powers to grant special prosecutors.
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What Happens When a Reform Prosecutor Stands Up to the Death Penalty
Prosecutors wield enormous discretion in the U.S. criminal justice system — unless they decide that capital punishment is unjust.
Fingerprint Analysis Is High-Stakes Work — but It Doesn’t Take Much to Qualify as an Expert
One wrong fingerprint match could send an innocent person to prison or see a killer go free. But proficiency tests are frighteningly easy to pass.
The Failed State of America
Jacobin magazine Executive Editor Seth Ackerman joins for a conversation with host Jeremy Scahill.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Dominate Democratic Debate Set Up to Ambush Them
Updated: CNN’s Democratic presidential primary debate was framed like an ambush against Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders — who then ended up dominating it.
Kara Eastman Fell Just Short in 2018. The DCCC Is Recruiting a 2020 Opponent Anyway.
The DCCC seems to have little interest in 2020 in revisiting its assessment of candidates who almost won in 2018, despite having no party support.
Acosta Says Epstein Deal Was in a “Different World” — But His Labor Department Still Makes Trafficking Victims Suffer
At the Department of Labor, Alex Acosta continues to ensure that those vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation are made more vulnerable still.
U.S. Generals Worry About Rising Russian and Chinese Influence in Africa, Documents Show
In testimony obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, the current and former heads of U.S. Africa Command sketched out their concerns.
Bernie Sanders Stood Up to Teach for America When Congress Wouldn't
“When we have highly qualified teachers, we don’t want all of those teachers being in upper-middle-class neighborhoods educating kids to go to Harvard and Yale."
Justice Department Says 2020 Census Fight Might Not Be Over, Following President's Tweet
A federal judge gave government lawyers two days to make sense of the president's baffling tweet on the effort to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census.