Stygian Pits and Child Forfeiture

The eloquent Will Grigg in an outstanding interview with Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams, discussing his article Protecting the Vicious, Punishing the Virtuous: Marijuana Prohibition and Idaho’s Prison-Industrial Complex. My favorite coinages from the interview: Will...

Don’t Like the Drugs, but the War Must Cease

We've been devoting more coverage to the War on Drugs lately, so it's worth noting when a politician says anything about it other than "full speed ahead." It's especially worth noting when a presidential candidate says "I fear the War on Drugs a lot more than I fear...

Doing 55 in a 54

Kelley Vlahos has a great piece today on the Henry Gates affair and the larger problems of which it's a symptom. One such problem is the ever increasing number of pretexts on which the authorities can interrogate, search, assault, and arrest citizens. The authority...