| Amid debate on prison reform, rising voices from the inside Posted: 10 Sep 2018 01:15 PM PDT ![Amid debate on prison reform, rising voices from the inside]( "Amid debate on prison reform, rising voices from the inside") Debate over criminal justice reform in the United States in recent years has tackled everything from the death penalty to bail reform to restoring voting rights after a prisoner has completed their sentence. Over the past three weeks, prisoners in more than a dozen states have tried to change that. Hunger strikes took place from California, Washington, and Texas.
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| In China, a great leap in corporate governance Posted: 10 Sep 2018 12:35 PM PDT ![In China, a great leap in corporate governance]( "In China, a great leap in corporate governance") On Monday, China's wealthiest individual, Jack Ma of tech giant Alibaba, announced his successor at the company he founded 19 years ago. Notably, in a country where 70 to 80 percent of private enterprises are still family run, Mr. Ma did not name a family member.
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| A bold bid in the Middle East to rewrite the diplomatic rulebook Posted: 10 Sep 2018 12:13 PM PDT ![A bold bid in the Middle East to rewrite the diplomatic rulebook]( "A bold bid in the Middle East to rewrite the diplomatic rulebook") Full details of the Trump administration's Middle East peace policy have yet to be announced, but its driving principle is not in doubt: that because past administrations haven't delivered Israeli-Palestinian peace, it's time to rewrite the diplomatic rulebook. Leading the effort, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has targeted the main obstacles as Palestinian demands for sovereignty over the eastern half of Jerusalem, including the Old City, and a "right of return" for the roughly 5 million descendants of refugees from the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Since Israel holds the land on which a Palestinian state would be established, recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital was seen as an important carrot in a negotiating process sure to require compromise on both sides.
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| Indian territory again? An old Oklahoma murder case spotlights tribal sovereignty Posted: 10 Sep 2018 11:13 AM PDT ![Indian territory again? An old Oklahoma murder case spotlights tribal sovereignty]( "Indian territory again? An old Oklahoma murder case spotlights tribal sovereignty") This lonely roadside ditch is where Mr. Jacobs died one night in August 1999 after being stabbed and beaten by Patrick Murphy. Murphy's appeal took a while, as capital cases do, and his defenders tried to stay the verdict on grounds of mental incompetency as well as faulty trial procedures and execution protocols in Oklahoma. Murphy is Native American, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the fourth-largest tribe in the United States.
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