Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986

Lawmakers are undoing the worst parts of 1980s drug legislation, but they have forgotten its ties to immigration enforcement.

A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.

To understand the racism of the drug war, we must look to the ways policymakers sought to protect white suburban youth.

DARE lost its once hegemonic influence over drug education, but it had long-lasting effects on American policing, politics, and culture.

Ronald Reagan's economic policies exacerbated the racial wealth gap— and they've guided all his successors.

These storylines portrayed those addicted to drugs and alcohol as lunatics whose only cure can come from punitive measures, abstinence, and “tough love.”

How does a plant become a crime?

How the United States created the largest immigrant detention system in the world.

Biden convinced small-government Republicans to increase spending in the War on Crime.

Today, nearly 2.2 million Americans are behind bars. Can contemporary mass incarceration's roots be traced to LBJ's Great Society?