As the U.S. marks 50 years since President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs on June 17, 1971, we speak with journalist Maya Schenwar, editor-in-chief of the news website Truthout, whose sister ...

Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson discuss their new anthology, We Grow the World Together, about how caregiving and the organizing work of abolitionists can go hand in hand. For most parents, our ...

When Maya Schenwar and her colleagues at Truthout began to talk about unionizing, the global economy had just imploded. It was 2008, and most people still thought of digital news outlets — ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Maya Schenwar is an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2014 Call-In as an Editor-in-Chief for the Truthout.org. Journalists Maya ...

Motherhood Made Me Even More of a Prison and Police Abolitionist In this excerpt from “We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition,” co-editor Maya Schenwar names an unexpected source of ...

Advertising critics have long noted that a company’s PR tells you, inadvertently but reliably, exactly what their problems are. The ad features salmon splashing in crystalline waters? That company is ...

There have been many books published in recent years on the topic of abolition—the move to divest from prisons and policing and invest in the structures, institutions, and movements that actually keep ...

Maya Schenwar directs the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism and serves as Truthout’s editor at large and board president. She is author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and ...