Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims crime has gone up in some U.S. cities because the Obama administration was too lenient in sentencing offenders. But the facts don’t back him up, according to Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, in Washington. “It’s discouraging that, in the 21st century, we’re making policy decisions based on sound bites and gut instincts rather than evidence,” said Mauer. “There is no lack of evidence to show that mass incarceration has been counter-productive to public safety and devastating for low-income communities of color.”
Bernie Sanders must very quickly get serious about building a grassroots movement-type politics on the ground that disrupts the corporate-managed pace, coverage and content of the primary season.
Russiagate is a scheme meant to give Democrats popular support without doing anything the public want them to do.
Our beloved Managing Editor is a permanent presence in BAR and in the people’s struggle for social justice.
Bruce Dixon was anti-empire, anti-capitalist, and a champion of working-class Black America and the people at large.
The DSA Socialism Conference combines calls for radical economic transformation with demonization of governments targeted for regime change by the US.
