Portside

States were meant to be “laboratories of democracy.” Instead, they are pioneering new ways to restrict voting and distort representation.

Almost half a century of fighting brought the country to its nadir, and there is no clear way out of the misery.

Just Mercy challenges us not just to abolish the cruel, oppressive, and racist system of death sentencing, but to move beyond soul-killing modes of thought that are part of what make such systems of oppression possible in the first place.