A Journal of Ideas

criminal justice

Is Police Reform Possible?

By Jonathan Blanks Phillip Atiba Goff Diane M. Goldstein Seth W. Stoughton

A Path Forward on Reparations?

By Richard Kahlenberg

Give the People the Law

Today in most of America, helping someone use the law is illegal unless you're a lawyer. These restrictions damage democracy. The case for legal empowerment.

By Vivek Maru

Can the Police Really Change?

The answer is, they must—or risk the full destruction of their credibility.

By Jonathan Blanks

Our False Promise of Justice

From the prosecutorial state to prison to reentry, we perpetuate unending cycles of dehumanizing punishment. Enough.

By Rylee Sommers-Flanagan