A cement cell might seem like the last place a Syrian refugee would want to sleep, but that's exactly what hundreds of refugees are doing in the Netherlands right now.
The incarcerated population in the country has seen a dramatic decline in the past decade, dropping from 20,463 prisoners in 2006 to 10,102 in 2016. The smaller number of inmates means a lot of prisons...
Remember at the end of 2016 when we were all like "Well, that was awful, at least it can't get any worse"? How naive we were. Now true enough, there are good things going on in the world, and plenty of things to be optimistic about. But at times, it seems like for all the progress we make, we open ourselves up to newer...
Last year, Alexis Bortell's book advocating the legalization of medical marijuana was published and distributed by Amazon. There's nothing especially surprising about that: activists...
