Aging Prisoner’s Suicide Roils Parole Debate
An update on our July cover story
The Indypendent
Renee Feltz
If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go
How a man who served 33 years on a 15-to-life sentence is pushing New York’s intransigent parole board to release violent offenders who have aged out of crime, the fastest growing segment of the prison population.
Scorching Capitalism: Naomi Klein Turns Up the Heat in New Movie
This Changes Everything Directed by Avi Lewis Klein Lewis Productions, 2015 As a rule, documentaries about climate change feature…
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Rallies, Blockades, Hunger Strikes Greet Deportation Milestone
We now know that 2 million people have been deported under the Obama administration. We’re saying enough of that!”…
Kids for Cash? You Be the Judge
Perhaps the most dramatic encounter in the “Kids for Cash” scandal — in which some 3,000 teenagers in central…
Our Planet in the Balance: The Warsaw Climate Talks
WARSAW, Poland — “Who rules Poland? The coal industry or the people?” was the question posed by a massive…
Immigration Reform Faces Many Hurdles
Since President Obama was re-elected with great help from Latino voters, he has taken care to repeatedly call for…
To truly address climate change head-on, the United States would have to agree to a treaty that requires profound…
Inside the Doha Climate Conference
DOHA, Qatar — Less than a month after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, I arrived in one of…
Immigrant Dragnet: Feds bring controversial program to NYC Area
The controversial immigration enforcement program known as Secure Communities quietly went into effect in New York City this May…