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Daniel Denvir is a writer at Salon covering criminal justice, policing, education, inequality and politics. You can follow him at Twitter @DanielDenvir.

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The vital Bernie Sanders proposal that no one’s talking about — including Bernie

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The government is abusing mandatory minimums: How law enforcement is ruining a generation of Americans

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The Republican Party is now America’s largest hate group

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Clinton apologizes for calling immigrants “illegal” — but not for her anti-immigrant record

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FILE - In this May 15, 1998 file photo, Jonathan Pollard speaks during an interview in a conference room at the Federal Correction Institution in Butner, N.C. Lawyers for the convicted spy Pollard say the U.S. has granted his parole and he will be released in November. Pollard, sentenced to life in prison, has served 30 years for spying for Israel. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker, File) (AP)

People are celebrating this spy’s release from prison. Here’s what they should be doing instead.

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“The children are having sex!”: The sexting scandal in Colorado that highlights America’s dangerous sex-ed shortcomings

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We need to abolish the DEA: There’s no federal agency that does more harm to the people it serves

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The stunning paradox of Iran’s war on drugs: How it actually makes America look worse

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This is America in the age of decay: How we became a civilization dominated by racism & rage

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Why law enforcement can’t take the lead on ending mass incarceration

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Here’s yet another issue where Bernie blows Hillary out of the water: Marijuana reform

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“You can’t force people to quit using drugs”: The surging debate over whether you can make heroin addicts go clean

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What Clinton and Sanders both get wrong about gun control

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Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon)

Hillary Clinton’s anti-Sanders smears are completely out of control: Why her latest Bernie broadside is utterly hypocritical

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Big Business tried to monopolize legal pot: Why Ohio’s vote against recreational weed was actually a good thing

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Prosecutors are addicted to the War on Drugs: Inside law enforcement’s rabid defense of mandatory minimums

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The betrayal that should haunt Hillary Clinton: How she sold out working women & then never apologized

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The truth about mandatory minimums: The left’s painful—but necessary—conversation about crime & punishment

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A still from a video of a school police officer in Columbia, South Carolina, Oct. 2015

Your school is becoming a police state: The shocking, Orwellian rise of “school resource officers”

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Soldiers stand guard next to bags of marijuana being displayed to the media at a military base on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico. (Reuters/Tomas Bravo)

Censored UN paper calling for decriminalization marks beginning of the end of drug war as we knew it

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“Non-serious, non-violent, non-sexual”: Fixing our mass incarceration problem means getting past the easy steps

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There really is a war on Christmas!

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Michelle Rhee’s right turn

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Cheating runs rampant

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