Governor’s Call for Giving Colleges Priority Over Prisons Faces Hard Political Tests

Schwarzenegger’s State of the State speech on January 7th in Sacramento entailed a plan to “bring back the days when the state funneled more money into University of California and California State University classrooms than into prisons.” The governor f… more »

The Magna Carta and Why it's so Important Today

Did you know, that bail in the US has roots in English law dating all the way back to the Magna Carta? This English document touted revelries of individual freedoms from its inception. The old adage, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corru… more »