The House I Live In

...for the most part, Jarecki connects his surfeit of anecdotal observations to hard data, making a compelling case that the drug war has never been about drugs, but about controlling the underclass.

A superb, insight-heavy critique of America's war on narcs, that picks up where Traffic left off with a coherent argument against currently policy. A must-see.

Eugene Jarecki [...] here launches an angry and personal attack, from the libertarian left, on America's war on drugs.

...highlights the enormous disparities between the races caught up in the war on drugs, and, ultimately equates it with the racial inequality of the Sixties and the lingering failures of the civil rights movement.