Stories by Sasha Abramsky
Sasha Abramsky is the author of Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House (The New Press, 2006).
Posted on Mar 29, 2011, Source: The Nation
Like her brother, President Obama, Soetoro-Ng wants to revamp school systems and broaden test-focused curriculums
Posted on Feb 25, 2010, Source: Comment Is Free
That a man with unpaid-for cheese in his underwear could ever have faced essentially the same sentence as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is an absurdity.
Posted on Aug 8, 2009, Source: Comment Is Free
For years, California has prioritized incarceration over all other social investments. Now it's being forced to release 40,000 prisoners in two years.
Posted on Jul 4, 2009, Source: PoliPoint Press
America's poor are being priced out of a market flush with excess eatables. It's an abomination we can fix.
Posted on Aug 20, 2008, Source: The American Prospect
Evolution didn't quite hit perfection when it comes to human thought processes.
Posted on Mar 4, 2008, Source: Comment Is Free
The bottom dollar: cutting interests rates instead of fighting inflation hurts the economy's most vulnerable.
Posted on Oct 23, 2007, Source: In These Times
As the number of prisoners in California prisons explodes, the state may soon spend more locking up its citizens than on public university education.
Posted on Jul 30, 2007, Source: The American Prospect
Author Joe Bageant's "Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War" gets down and dirty with the hardship economics in Middle America.
Posted on Jan 6, 2007, Source: The Nation
Rocky Anderson is a progressive hero in the die-hard red state of Utah, joining in anti-Bush rallies, restructuring the criminal justice system, and supporting gay rights.
Posted on Oct 23, 2006, Source: The Nation
How New Mexico successfully framed the minimum wage as a moral issue, and was able to pass a progressive ballot initiative.
Posted on Sep 13, 2006, Source: Mother Jones
American democracy's glaring weak spots include machines that count backward, slice-and-dice districts, felon baiting, phone jamming and plenty of dirty tricks.
Posted on May 27, 2006, Source: Pop and Politics
Remove the voting power of the urban poor, and issues of importance to inner-city America are likely to get ignored come Election Day.
Posted on Apr 25, 2006, Source: AlterNet
In this excerpt from his new book, Sasha Abramsky reveals what really happened during the 2000 Election voter 'purge.'
Posted on Oct 18, 2005, Source: The Nation
Further rises in the cost of gas could kill thousands of small-town economies across America.
Posted on Mar 7, 2005, Source: The American Prospect
The juvenile death penalty has been eliminated, throwing the general use of the death penalty further into question.
Posted on Jul 6, 2004, Source: The Nation
Prisons thrive on cheap labor and the hunger of job-starved towns.
Posted on Mar 19, 2004, Source: AlterNet
As the 2004 presidential election approaches, millions of Americans remain legally prevented from voting in their home states.
Posted on Nov 9, 2000, Source: MotherJones.com
Thousands of Florida residents were struck from the voter lists because they were mistakenly identified as ex-felons, just months before what has become the closest election in US history. With Bush apparently leading Gore by only hundreds of votes, in a state with hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised voters, could similar errors be tipping the race?
