Tag: Barack Obama

The New Jim Crow: reexamining mass incarceration in America

A review of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran. The number of prisoners of African-American and Latino descent is wildly out of proportion to their share of the general population, and the War on Drugs accounts for the lion’s share of the difference.

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Understanding the secret American campaign against Al Qaeda

A review of Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Asainst Al Qaeda, by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker. @@@ (3 out of 5). Counterstrike is a remarkable bit of longitudinal reporting by two veterans of the New York Times, bringing to light a host of insights and behind-the-scene details about America’s decade-long campaign against Al Qaeda. However, Schmitt and Shanker might have benefited from a few lessons in nonfiction writing by a master of the craft such as Tracy Kidder, Erik Larson, or even Bob Woodward.

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