Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The death penalty: racist, classist and unfair?


I have an interview up today with David Dow, an appellate lawyer in Texas whose new book, The Autobiography of an Execution, covers his two decades of defending more than 100 death-row inmates. We talked about why he does his job, the problem with juries and what it's like to look murderers in the eye.

Monday, February 15, 2010

The Asian Carp are Coming!!


Not since jaws has a piscine predator caused such a commotion. Inspired by the Asian carp threatening the Great Lakes fishing industry, for this week's magazine I wrote a brief history of invasive species.