What Happens After Trump?: Why Tim Miller Thi...

Caitlin Flanagan joins the show today, now an official columnist at The Free Press. Flanagan, one of the sharpest essayists working today, spent 35 years in Los Angeles before deciding she’d had enough, and tells Coleman why. The answer says a lot about what progressive governanc ...  Show more

Peter Beinart is a writer and author who has contributed to The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. He grew up a committed Zionist and has spent the last decade publicly refuting that position, arriving at the view that Israel cannot be reconciled with the princip ...  Show more

Aside from Martyn Blake, only three other armed police officers have stood trial for murder. We speak to one of them.

The news of firearms officer Martyn Blake's acquittal in the Chris Kaba murder trial has sparked a national debate - not just about how and why the C ...

One of the defining characteristics of the modern nation state is that the state has a monopoly on the use of force. In the United States, police officers are a manifestation of this agreement, to which we are all parties--whether we like it or not--and that is perhaps one rea ...

Officer Kevin Donaldson faces 20 individuals with criminal records to discuss and defend four critical claims: that police use lethal force only as a last resort, most officers are selfless and honorable, racial profiling of Black and Brown people is not a widespread issue, and t ...  Show more

Shahid Amin was serving a long sentence in HMP Grendon when he began studying criminology. This came after teenage years in which being engaged with the police and the criminal justice system overshadowed any early experiences with education. He has continued his further educatio ...  Show more