After the Boston Bombings

September 4, 2013 / 0 comments

After the Boston Bombings brought the looming threat of anti-American “radicalization” back into the forefront of media coverage and political debate, I began to wonder why key words like radical, extreme and fundamental weren’t applied to the case of Evan Ebel. If you recall, on March 21, 2013, one month before the Tsarnaev brothers attacked…

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Interrupting Cycles of Violence

September 4, 2013 / 0 comments

POST #4 April 2 Between 1980 and 2000 the U.S. penal population has grown from around 300,000 to more than 2.4 million. In 2012 nearly 7 million people were living under correctional control, and 65 million felons have been relegated to the status of second-class citizen. (1) This epidemic of criminality has been diagnosed a…

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