All 71 articles by Silja J.A. Talvi
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De-escalating the Drug War
Obama's pick to head ONDCP is better than your average drug czar.
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Ending the War on Drugs
Will the Obama administration put justice back in the criminal justice system?
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Our Town vs. Exxon
Marine biologist Riki Ott explains how Cordova, Alaska, rebounded 20 years after the oil spill.
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All Work, No Play
Vacation time shouldn't be the privilege of a few, but the right of all
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Reporting From The Ground Up
The power of street reporting
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Seattle Battles the Homeless
Underneath the I-5 highway in south Seattle, Isaac Palmer had found a spot to sleep. Hidden away from...
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Women Behind Bars
War on drugs leads to explosion of female incarcerations
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Tupperware and Tasers
The SUV-driving, stun-gun-wielding housewife is coming to a suburb near you. In Arizona, Tupperware-style Taser parties have become...
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Suffering Secondary Trauma
Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind explores the complexity of Chang's psychology as it formed around the demands of her profession and her personal struggles stemming from her writing about The Rape of Nanking
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Justice Denied
One man stands between Flozelle Woodmore and the "free" world--California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The Drug War’s Collateral Damage
Those victimized by a crackdown on marijuana since the early '90s can be denied everything from food stamps to voting rights to the right to adopt a child
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Non-Lethal Weaponry: The Next Generation
Plasma clouds, microwave beams, electrified bullets--military contractors have been developing futuristic new combat technologies under the public radar....
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Dread Beats
The dub poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson
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Stunning Revelations
The untold story of Taser-related deaths
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End Medical Experimentation on Prisoners Now
Prisoners have no rights regarding the quality of their medical care or their participation in experiments.
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Follow the Prison Money Trail
Private prison companies invest millions in elections.
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Narcissists Rђ Us?
Three decades later, Christopher Lasch's analysis still neatly explains why self-love will tear us apart
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Kal (Black) Like Me
A Belgrade-based music group hopes to bring Romani issues to the forefront.
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Convict Nation
The American prison system grew by more than 1,000 new adult prisoners per week in one year, confirming our position as the world's unsurpassed leader in mass incarceration. Statistics obscure the everyday pain for millions upon millions of Americans who feel like nearly everybody has given up on them.
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Pow! Shazaam! Its ғMinoriteam!
Behind the scenes of a controversial new Cartoon Network show
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No Room in Prison? Ship Em Off
Prisoners have become unwitting pawns in a lowest-bidder-gets-the-convict shuffle game
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Reporting on Americas Most Unwanted
Immersion journalists Sasha Abramsky and Steve Bogira bring the lives of the impoverished, adjudicated and disenfranchised to life.
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The ITT List
Reaching for real solutions to real problems: health and homelessness in Mass. and L.A.
It's not difficult to give into an overall sense of hopelessness these days. I'll be the first to...
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The Lifeline: L.A. Times dares to show us what the war looks like ...
... from inside the operating room. Or anywhere else, for that matter. It's a rare thing, these days, for...
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Vexatious Vicissitudes of Victory: V for Vendetta
I had to wonder, after finally seeing V for Vendetta, how the Wachowski brothers are feeling right now....
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ICE takes on bongs, rolling papers, and other “head shop” items
After the massive reorg of federal gov't agencies, INS became ICE, and was subsumed under the Dept. of...
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Race Riot?
It's far too easy to pin recent violence in the L.A. County Jail on ethnic tensions
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary talks about her provocative new book
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Condi speaks out on sisterhood
It appears even Ms. Rice was feelin' a bit of the annual International Women's Day, 3/8. In a press...
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Scared of getting mugged? Take a cruise.
People actually get paid for conducting the silliest imaginable research studies. They really do. Here's one of my...
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Spin? What spin? $1.62 billion spent by U.S. gov’t on media/pr contracts.
Have I mentioned how much I love the GAO lately? No? Well, I love the Government Accountability Office...
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Guns don’t kill people, but Cheney (almost) does ...
If you haven't heard by now, VP Cheney nearly killed his friend and fellow quail hunter, 78-year-old attorney...
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Freedom of Information Act? What’s that again?
In light of the fact that the US Dept. of Homeland (In)security (DHS) continues to refuse to...
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Prison spending in CA to top $8 billion in 2006
The Governator's innovative new plan for California's gigantic prison population is apparently to ensure that it just keeps...
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Those damn liberal homosexual Hollywood-types ...
Those gay cowboys; what were they thinking? Today, the Concerned Women for America expressed their displeasure at the...
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Keep those soldiers awake! (Can I have some?)
I guess all the hallucinations that accompany harder amphetamines were starting to mess with army heads too much....
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Diplomatic relations where they matter: Tequila!
Much to my relief, U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman announced today that the U.S. had reached...
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Majority of Americans support Bush impeachment for wiretapping.
A new Zogby poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org finds that 52% of Americans do want Congress to consider impeaching...
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Cult of Character
How the 'secular' Character Training Institute is working to build evangelist Bill Gothard's vision of a First-Century Kingdom of God--one city, one state, one school board, one police force and one mind at a time.
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Podcasts we don’t need!
Thanks to Drug Czar John Walters, the Director of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), for the fact that...
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Steven Tyler would sing to you, too ...
... if you had this much money to blow on a birthday party. A teenager's birthday party, no less. ...
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Entertainment meets revolution
I'm surrounded, right here in downtown Seattle, by the sight of frantic holiday shoppers grabbing up Old Navy...
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Bad Girls
The typical American female TV criminal is nasty, cutthroat, cunning, duplicitous and sexy to boot. Oxygen, a women-oriented...
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Effort mounts to stop the 12/13 execution of the co-founder of the Crips.
The path that took Stanley "Tookie" Williams from gang life to Nobel Peace Prize nomination has been a...
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Land o’ hate crimes ...
Since 1992, the FBI has been mandated to report the number of hate crimes in the U.S. The...
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No FOIA allowed! Look out for BARDA, a new, top secret gov’t agency.
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA) is about to become the the first-ever government agency not...
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Cops and Harm Reduction Hotties, Oh My!
You wouldn't have expected it during any other week, but for a few days in mid-November, pot smoke...
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Mo Money for Monogamy
Pro-life organizations are receiving millions of federal dollars in the name of "abstinence education."
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Is this what 12-steppers call the ‘denial’ phase?
In Panama City, President Bush told the Panamanian press that the U.S. is pursuing terrorists "under the...
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Abu Ghraib to freed detainees: It’s been real! K.I.T.!
Earlier this week, the U.S. Central Command's "Detainee Operations" in Iraq announced that, "in the spirit of...
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