Not all criminalization is bad, of course. We really do need laws -- new ones in some cases -- to combat child pornography, human trafficking, police brutality, and other such affronts. The problem is when Congress oversteps and federal law enforcement authorities go hog wild, drunk with power.
Compared to the stable and mature political identities of the American, British, and French nations, the political identities of both Israeli and Palestinian peoples are, in a way, in their adolescence. Israelis and Palestinians alike, have and continue to interpret the nature of the discord between them as "you versus me" in a prejudiced and selective way.
The US was never going to tolerate a successful social-democratic Europe. The combined economic and refugee crises are intended to neutralize the space that has always separated Russia from its Western predators. This has vast implications for the South.
In light of systemically dysfunctional appellate processes increasingly at issue in death penalty cases such as Jones v. Davis, it is necessary that the federal courts promptly retire McKane v. Durston, by declaring that today's Fourteenth Amendment due process guarantee incorporates an adequate criminal right to appeal.
The media loves terror porn; keeping people afraid is profitable. However, both common sense, and simple analysis, show that what really keeps most Americans up at night is money, or the lack of it. For the first time in the lifetime of many Americans, the Middle Class now makes up less than half of the US population.