We support efforts in our states to safely reduce prison populations and the astronomical cost to our taxpayers, while simultaneously lowering crime and recidivism rates.
In an age of 24-hour news where every misstep by a police officer or every overreach by a protester cycles before our eyes again and again and again, it is all too easy to think division is now the order of things.
Political parties haven’t always chosen their presidential candidates through national conventions. Before 1832, caucuses of each party’s members of Congress selected them.
Police officers now tasked with not only keeping delegates safe -- but also each other. And they are especially concerned about protesters who might be carrying firearms outside the security perimeter.
The 2016 election has been defined so far by immigration, Islamic terror, and economic inequality and the outsider candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders that brought them to the fore.
With the exceptions of the military and the police, every major American institution is underwater with the public. The core of American consensus and belief in American ideals is fraying.
On Tuesday, in Dallas, at the memorial service for the five white cops murdered by a black gunman, President Obama delivered a graceful and eloquent meditation on race relations in America.
Well before the opening gavel and way beyond the final benediction, here are three things we can say about the next two weeks of national party conventions.
