Here are the things I’ve written that people actually read.

Slate

• “The Florida GOP Has a New, Devious Way to Thwart Liberal Judges and Prosecutors,” September 19, 2023
• “Texas Takes Attacks on Austin to New Level With “Death Star” Law,” August 22, 2023
• “Biden’s Focus on Marijuana Is Part of the Problem“, October 20, 2022
• “Why Even Progressive Prosecutors Won’t Be Able to Keep Women Who Have Abortions Out of Jail,” July 13, 2022
• “What the San Francisco DA Recall Really Tells Us,” June 10, 2022
• “The Real Reason Democrats Can’t Agree on How to Address Rising Crime,” March 8, 2022
• “What an Analysis of 2,000 Shootings Tells Us About How to End Gun Violence,” February 14, 2022 (I really am a total romantic)
• “Why Our Fixation on the Murder Rate Is Killing Us,” October 8, 2021
• “Reform School: Five Myths About Prison Growth Dispelled,” February 19, 2009

Washington Post

• “Rittenhouse Didn’t Have to Prove He Acted in Self-Defense,” November 19, 2021
• “It’s Ludicrous for the Supreme Court to Say Children Are Irredeemable,” April 23, 2021
• “Private Prisons Aren’t Uniquely Heinous. All Prisons are Abusive,” February 3, 2021
• “The Forever Bars,” April 10, 2020
• “Five Myths About Prisons,” May 17, 2019
• “California Oust an Elected Judge. Everybody Loses,” June 13, 2018
• “Why Do Prosecutors Go After Innocent People?” January 21, 2016
• “For True Penal Reform, Focus on the Violent Offenders,” July 26, 2015

The New York Times

• “The Supreme Court Justices Need Fact-Checkers,” October 18, 2017
• “A Mockery of Justice for the Poor,” April 19, 2016
• “Bill Clinton Is Wrong About His Crime Bill. So Are the Protesters He Lectured,” April 12, 2016

Wall Street Journal

• “The Case Against the Prosecution,” October 20, 2017
• “A Better Approach to Violent Crime,” January 27, 2017

The New Republic

• “The Manhattan DA Started a Panic With Supposedly Soft-on-Crime Policies. His Critics Are Wrong,” January 18, 2022
• “Can Criminal Justice Reform Survive a Wave of Violent Crime?” June 21, 2021

The Nation

• “NYC Prosecutors Are Stoking Fear About the Mass Bailout, but Their Arguments Don’t Add Up,” October 2, 2018
• “Donald Trump’s Wild Portrayal of Crime Is Simply Not True,” September 27, 2016

Vital City

• “Please Stop Blaming Bail Reform,” March 16, 2023

The Appeal

• “The Greatest Threat to Defunding the Police? State Pre-Emption,” April 29, 2021
• “Policing Studies Measure Benefits to Crime Reduction–But Not Social Costs,” October 2, 2020
• “Local Officials Should Quickly Reduce Jail Populations to Slow the Spread of Coronavirus,” April 2, 2020
• “The 1994 Crime Law Hogs the Legal Reform Spotlight, But a Lesser-Known Law Deserves More Attention,” October 2, 2019. Seriously, though? The Prison Litigation Reform Act still flies criminally under the policy radar.
• “A No-Holds Barred Assault on Prosecutors,” August 13, 2019
• “Boston’s New DA Pushes Back Against Prosecutors’ ‘Punishment-Centric’ Point of View,” November 14, 2018
• “NYC Prosecutors are Stoking Fear About the Mass Bailout, But Their Arguments Don’t Add Up,” October 2, 2018
• “The Incalculable Costs of Mass Incarceration,” September 20, 2018
• “The Perverse Incentives of Punishment,” May 18, 2018
• “Why Public Defenders Matter More Than Ever in a Time of Reform,” April 18, 2018
• “How Zombie Crime Stats, Phantom Stats, and Frankenstats Paint a Misleading Picture on Crime,” March 1, 2018

Democracy Journal

• “The Perverse Power of the Prosecutor,” February 22, 2018
• “Mass Incarceration is a Local Affair,” August 1, 2017

Other Publications

• “Hochul’s Regressive Bail Rollbacks Untethered from Evidence,” Garrison Project, April 11, 2022
• “What Democrats Get Wrong About Prison Reform,” Politico, August 14, 2019
• “Locked Up,” The Baffler, July 2019
• “Why Today’s Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Won’t End Mass Incarceration,” America Magazine, December 21, 2018
• “Alabama’s Prosecutors Could Be Its Biggest Reformers,” AL.com, September 29, 2018
• “South Carolina’s Deadly Prison Riot Wasn’t Inevitable–Policymakers Share the Blame,” NBC Think, April 20, 2018
• “A Smarter Approach to Federal Assistance with State-level Criminal Justice Reform,” AEI Economic Perspectives, January 16, 2018
• “Cory Booker Has a Plan to ‘Reverse’ Mass Incarceration. It Won’t Work,” Vox, September 26, 2017
• “The Never-Ending ‘Willie Horton’ Effect is Keeping Prisons Too Full For America’s Good,” Los Angeles Times, May 14, 2017

Book Reviews

• “An Eye-Opening Look at Law-Enforcement Surveillance,” The Economist (reviewing Jon Fasman’s We See It All), January 26, 2021
• “Courtesy for Some, Misdemeanors for Others,” Cato Unbound (reviewing Sarah Seo’s Policing the Open Road), April 16, 2019
• “Preet Bharara’s Willful Blindness,” Washington Monthly (reviewing Preet Bharara’s Doing Justice), April 7, 2019