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Meek Mill’s Story Highlights How Progressive Prosecutors Can Reform Probation & Parole

His experience is troubling because of how normal it is. Sixty thousand people land back in prison for minor parole violations every year. But his story also illustrates a way forward.
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- April 27, 2018
Q&A: Trump's Muslim Ban at the Supreme Court

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments against the third iteration of President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban. Faiza Patel says this will be a test for just how much the Supreme Court is willing to rein in an “obviously bigoted policy.”
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- April 24, 2018
Community Organizations Have Important Role in Lowering Crime Rates

Research shows that in a city of 100,000, each new nonprofit community organization lead to a 1.2 percent drop in the homicide rate, a 1 percent reduction in the violent crime rate, and a 0.7 percent reduction in the property crime rate.
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- April 20, 2018
The Corker-Kaine Bill Would Codify, not End, the Forever War

A bill introduced yesterday by Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., would give the president a virtual blank check to expand the current war against various terrorist groups to new enemies and new locations of the president’s choosing.
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- April 17, 2018
As Calls for Online Ads Regulation Mount, Maryland Takes the Lead

While Congress is grabbing headlines for the Zuckerberg hearings, states have been quietly leading the way in modernizing our election laws for the digital age.
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- April 17, 2018
What Lurks Behind All That Immigration Data?

The United States has a long history of using cutting-edge technology to collect and analyze data on immigrants. Unfortunately, we have an equally long history of misusing that data to justify nativist and exclusionary policies.
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- April 4, 2018
Get Angry Now to Make Congress Protect Mueller—Or Later, After Trump Fires Him

Nixon thought he could get away with the Saturday Night Massacre until thousands of telegrams helped force him to appoint a new prosecutor and release his damning tapes.
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- April 13, 2018
Reviving the War on Drugs is Exactly the Wrong Response to the Opioid Crisis

Trump administration policies regarding opioids virtually guarantee that people will enter prisons — while doing nothing to confront violent crime.
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- April 13, 2018
Republicans Gut Pennsylvania Redistricting Reform

Pennsylvania’s head-spinning redistricting politics took another disturbing turn this week.
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- April 12, 2018
Was Facebook’s Work With the Trump Campaign Illegal?

Facebook employees helped craft digital advertising strategy for the Trump campaign for free. This may have violated long-standing campaign finance rules that prohibit in-kind donations from private companies to candidates.
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- April 12, 2018

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Meek Mill’s Story Highlights How Progressive Prosecutors Can Reform Probation & Parole

Q&A: Trump's Muslim Ban at the Supreme Court

Community Organizations Have Important Role in Lowering Crime Rates

The Corker-Kaine Bill Would Codify, not End, the Forever War

As Calls for Online Ads Regulation Mount, Maryland Takes the Lead

What Lurks Behind All That Immigration Data?

Get Angry Now to Make Congress Protect Mueller—Or Later, After Trump Fires Him

Reviving the War on Drugs is Exactly the Wrong Response to the Opioid Crisis

Republicans Gut Pennsylvania Redistricting Reform

Was Facebook’s Work With the Trump Campaign Illegal?

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