Ben Adlerwrites that Democrats could actually cut the deficit and redefine foreign policy by going after defense spending -- if only they were brave enough to try.
Scott Lemieuxtells us that John Thompson spent 14 years on death row because prosecutors withheld evidence, but the Supreme Court refuses to hold them accountable.
The Prospectinterviews the sociologist and scholar William Julius Wilson, who revises his stance on whether Democrats should put race on the agenda.