Many called the incident "an inside job," arguing that the Taliban's five-month project to dig a 360-meter tunnel into the prison would not have gone unnoticed without the complicity of local officials. This only furthers the notion that the Afghan government is corrupt.

It is difficult to create and sustain a decent society when many of its members are former convicts.

For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd, given that he’s essentially running unopposed. But that's not what I'm talking about.

American public opinion on keeping troops in Iraq diverges, depending on how the questions are phrased.

Shared wariness over China is the main reason the U.S. and Vietnam have embraced each other. But it shouldn’t be the only one.

This monograph challenges the prevailing view amongst the criminal justice establishment that locking up criminals solves nothing.

Facebook Inc. took a momentous action last week. And I don’t mean its announced intention to sell shares for $28 to $35 in an initial public offering later this month.

Several states have recently shown that they can save on costs without compromising public safety by intelligently reducing their prison populations.