Last year 93,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, an increase of 30% over 2019. …

With well over 2 million people currently incarcerated in the United States, it is surprising to me that we don’t hear more in the news about conditions in which prisoners are held. Rather, it was surprising to me, until I found myself in the local County Jail. Now I know…

“That’s what arrest is: it’s a blinding flash and a blow which shifts the present instantly into the past and the impossible into omnipotent actuality. “That’s all. And neither for the first hour nor the first day will you be able to grasp anything else. “Except that in your desperation…