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.

Recent articles

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

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.