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Are We the Most Evil Country in the World?

David Macaray | Posted 05.07.2013 | Crime
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David Macaray

If we're not the "most evil" country in the world -- i.e., the country with the greatest number of evil people in it -- then we Americans are doing something terribly wrong, because we have the greatest number of people incarcerated in our prisons.

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Time to Be Smart On Crime and Punishment

Sasha Abramsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: American Academy of Arts and Science, Politics, California Gubernatorial Race, Fiscal Crisis, Prisons, Deinstitutionalization, Incarceration Rate, Budget Deficits, Daedalus, Politics News
Sasha Abramsky

Two weeks ago, I attended the first Meg Whitman-Jerry Brown gubernatorial debate in California. One of the things that struck me was the time-warp qua...

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Black Union Conference 2010: Tavis Smiley Brings Back Meeting To Push Black Agenda

AP | JESSE WASHINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Public Schools, Pbs, Cornel West, Poverty, Economy, Al Sharpton, Black Union Conference, Obama, Incarceration Rate, Race, Black Agenda, Civil Rights, Education, Unemployment, Black Union Conference 2010, Blacks, Tavis Smiley, Michael Eric Dyson, African Americans, Politics News

Two months after ending his annual State of the Black Union conference, Tavis Smiley is gathering African-American advocates to press the case for a "...

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