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Sasha Abramsky

Sasha Abramsky is a senior fellow for democracy at Demos, a New York City think-tank. His work has been published in Mother Jones, Atlantic Monthly, The American Prospect, the Nation and other journals. He is the author of Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation (St. Martin's Press, 2002) and his new book is Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House (New Press, 2006). His website is here.

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Conned: sentenced to uncitizenship

The confusion and misinformation that deprives ex-prisoners of the right to vote damages American democracy, says Sasha Abramsky.

Whose al-Qaida problem?

Much of the left’s opposition to the Iraq war and the Bush administration’s anti-terror campaigns – voiced by figures like Tariq Ali, Robert Fisk, George Galloway, Naomi Klein, and John Pilger – has blinded it to the need to engage with real problems and threats, says Sasha Abramsky.