Politics

In September 2016, Congress passed the JASTA, allowing families of the victims of 9/11 to sue the government of Saudi Arabia. Fearing the bill would jeopardize one of their only alliances in the region, President Obama vetoed the bill, only to have Congress override his veto and sign the bill.

With just 5% of the global population, the United States has managed to imprison an astounding 25% of the world’s prisoners. 2.3 million people are currently locked up in a dysfunctional prison state, while incarceration rates have quintupled since the 1980s.