2022

2021

A restorative response to low-level arrests

More Than Half of Police Killings Are Mislabelled or Not Reported

Supervised Release: An Alternative to Bail

Parents in prison

Ten striking statistics about the death penalty

U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century

Supervised Release: A Proven Alternative to Bail

Robert Reich We spend $107,575,000,000 more on police than on public housing....15 states spend $27,000 more per person in prison than they do per student.

Police Departments With The Biggest Racial Disparities In Arrests And Killings

2020

2019

Cop diversity doesn't necessarily reduce cop discrimination
Voices from solitary confinement
Philadelphia's reduction of cash bail seems to be working
How police practices can intensify discrimination
Fewer than 30 executions for the 5th straight year
America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Its rate is nearly five times the OECD average.
The number of sentenced inmates of all races in U.S. state and federal prison grew from 187,914 in 1968 to 1,458,000 in 2016. People of color account for 66 percent of people in prison, while they make up only about 39 percent of the total population.

2018


Essays
Clues your country may be becoming a fascist state
The militarization of civilian America
The true power of juries
Letter to a spook
How to stay free
Of pink suits, golf balls & civil liberties Letter to Thomas Jefferson Mississippi summer 1964
Backing off of hate Memories revived by "The Irishman"

WAR ON TERROR
The biggest threat to America: ourselves
Final thoughts
September 12, 2001
Follow the limousines

GROUPS

CYBER
ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER

CIVIL LIBERTIES
American Civil Liberties Union
Constitutional Accountability Center
National Lawyers Guild

COPYRIGHT Re-Create

GUNS
Gun talk
Gun owners are not the NRA
Firearm insurance

JUSTICE
ARREST RECORDS
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
CENTER FOR COURT INNOVATION
FULLY INFORMED JURY ASSOCIATION
INNOCENCE PROJECT
NAT ASSN OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS

SPYING
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Project on Government Oversight
Stand Against Spying

PRISONS
PRISON INSIGHT
SENTENCING PROJECT
SOLITARY WATCH

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ABOUT THE EDITOR

The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review and its predecessors since 1964, wrote four books, been published in five anthologies, helped to start five organizations (including the DC Humanities Council and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three successful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades.

A truly independent journalist with his feet firmly grounded in the reality of neighborhoods and everyday people. -- Patrick Mazza, Progressive Populist

A truly original voice in American journalism: humorous and plain spoken and filled with common sense -- Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader

Inimitable -- Mother Jones Magazine

Sam's a cynical cat -- Marion Barry

Sam's one of the few independent voices left. The press today is either extreme or special interest or else just establishment, an extension of the corporate spirit -- Eugene McCarthy,

One of a small group of whites with whom many blacks would trust their political lives - Chuck Stone, Washingtonian.

A reputation for wit, intelligence and anger. -- Claude Lewis, Chicago Tribune

Smith is an island of reason and information in a sea of narcissistic blather. -- City Paper, Washington

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ABOUT THE REVIEW

Regularly ahead of the curve, the Review has opposed federal drug policy for nearly 50 years, was a lonely media voice against the massive freeways planned for Washington, was an early advocate of bikeways and light rail, and helped spur the creation of the DC Statehood Party and the national Green Party,

In November 1990 it devoted an entire issue to the ecologically sound city and how to develop it. The article was republished widely.

Even before Clinton's nomination we exposed Arkansas political scandals that would later become major issues. .

We reported on NSA monitoring of U.S. phone calls in the 1990s, years before it became a major media story.

In 2003 editor Sam Smith wrote an article for Harper's comprised entirely of falsehoods about Iraq by Bush administration officials.

The Review started a web edition in 1995 when there were only 27,000 web sites worldwide. Today there are over 170 million active sites.

In 1987 we ran an article on AIDS. It was the first year that more than 1,000 men died of the disease.

In the 1980s, Thomas S Martin predicted in the Review that "Yugoslavia will eventually break up" and that "a challenge to the centralized soviet state" would occur as a result of devolutionary trends. Both happened.

In the 1970s we published a first person account of a then illegal abortion.

In 1971 we published our first article in support of single payer universal health care

In 1970, we ran a two part series on gay liberation.

in 1965 we called for the end of the draft.

In the 1960s we proposed community policing

UNDERNEWS

Crime & justice