... This piece is an obituary and personal remembrance of the influential feminist theorist and activist, Ellen Willis, one of the earliest and most brilliant of the writers and organizers of the feminist second wave in the US. Willis was a radical who believed that it is pleasure and not self...

... Chapter 9 is a close examination of the infamous Willie Horton scandal. With the exploitation of this case by the presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush, the furlough process became the theater for a proxy battle in the war on crime. Whereas a decade earlier furloughs were heralded as a tool...