Stories by Kristen Gwynne

Kristen Gwynne is an associate editor and drug policy reporter at AlterNet.  Follow her on Twitter: @KristenGwynne subscribe to Kristen Gwynne's feed

Posted on: Jun 26, 2013, Source: AlterNet

This is how nonchalantly we probe women's bodies nowadays.

Posted on: Jun 26, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Last night, hundreds of angry women refused to let their voices be silenced by Senate Republicans dead-set on trampling their rights.

Posted on: Jun 26, 2013, Source: AlterNet

In one of the cases, the victim will no longer be able to prosecute her attacker, because the DNA evidence matched to him was destroyed.

Posted on: Jun 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

A deadlocked jury failed to decide whether to convict or acquit the cop responsible, but prosecutors will face the same obstacles in a new trial.

Posted on: Jun 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

On Tuesday, authorities arrested three people accused of forcing labor upon a disabled mother.

Posted on: Jun 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Hastings died in a fiery car crash yesterday in Los Angeles.

Posted on: Jun 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The warden has signed for her compassionate release. Nonetheless, her cell stays locked.

Posted on: Jun 13, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Columbia University scientist Dr. Carl Hart combines research and anecdotes from his life to explain how false assumptions have created a disastrous drug policy.

Posted on: Jun 12, 2013, Source: AlterNet

In a big victory for production interns, a federal judge granted class-action status to a suit against Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Posted on: Jun 12, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Nonetheless, the police department chief says this cop did nothing wrong.

Posted on: Jun 12, 2013, Source: AlterNet

A reflection of the sad state of America's education system.

Posted on: Jun 7, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Imagine if this happened to you.

Posted on: Jun 7, 2013, Source: AlterNet

They don't want the jury getting emotional.

Posted on: Jun 7, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Priorities are out of whack in Pennsylvania.

Posted on: Jun 5, 2013, Source: AlterNet

She's not even ten, and already speaking truth to power.

Posted on: Jun 5, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Throwing innocent people in prison pays big bucks, so why not?

Posted on: Jun 5, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Erdogan calls social media a 'scourge.'

Posted on: Jun 4, 2013, Source: AlterNet

A groundbreaking report rom the ACLU found that minorities are targeted in the war on weed, even in predominantly white neighborhoods.

Posted on: May 29, 2013, Source: AlterNet

In every other rich country, paid time-off is guaranteed.

Posted on: May 29, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Looks like the recession may have irked the nation's so-called brightest.

Posted on: May 29, 2013, Source: AlterNet

It took some convincing, but they did it.

Posted on: May 29, 2013, Source: AlterNet

He has a point.

Posted on: May 22, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The school-to-prison pipeline strikes again.

Posted on: May 22, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Chobani leaves a trail of waste too toxic to dump, leaving the industry scrambling for solutions to disposal.

Posted on: May 22, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Kaitlyn Hunt's parents and supporters say the charges are unfair and biased.

Posted on: May 22, 2013, Source: AlterNet

'They don't fit' is the phrase that apparently prompted concern.

Posted on: May 22, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Because they can't get married, they can't technically live together.

Posted on: May 21, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Closing arguments have been made in the trial over the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk tactic. What now?

Posted on: May 15, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Sound familiar? That's because almost the same exact thing happened last week.

Posted on: May 15, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Hint: It's not in Liberia.

Posted on: May 9, 2013, Source: AlterNet

More evidence is coming in that stop-and-frisk is race-based.

Posted on: May 8, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Thanks to the drug war, police have much more incentive to go after drug crimes than more heinous crimes.

Posted on: May 8, 2013, Source: AlterNet

New details from the decade-long nightmare reveal a true house of horrors and puzzling police incompetence.

Posted on: May 8, 2013, Source: AlterNet

It's every bit as disgusting as it sounds.

Posted on: May 3, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Don't expect wealth and power, Romney warned the women of the Southern Virginia University's graduating class. Just get married and make lots of babies!

Posted on: May 3, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Plan B is safer than Aspirin. So why is Obama touting the so-calle danger of its use in girls younger than 15?

Posted on: May 3, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The NYPD's latest attempt to operate abroad is simply the most recent in a long line of overseas ventures.

Posted on: Apr 30, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Reforms that expand access to life-saving overdose medication may not go far enough.

Posted on: Apr 26, 2013, Source: AlterNet

To save millions in money they would have to pay to taxes, the CCA is now claiming to be a "Real Estate Investment Trust."

Posted on: Apr 26, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Why are Republicans still tweeting?

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