Conor Friedersdorf: The Injustice Of Civil Asset Forfeiture

The government's highwaymen.   Joseph Rivers left his hometown of Romulus, Michigan, boarded a train, and headed for Los Angeles, California, where he hoped to become a music-video producer. The 22-year-old says he’d been saving money for years to make the trip and that his mother had scraped together some additional cash to help   ... MORE