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resistance appears tO be a reaction tO what he sees as overreach by the Obama administra- tlon—moving t00 far, t00 fast. Sessions has been particularly opposed tO executive branch moves tO release existing prisoners (like NOdd) early, rather than applying sentencing changes only tO future cases. Sessions explained at his hearing that he was against retroactively apply- ing his 2010 law because lOt Of these were Commssion ignored the Republican reprl- plea-bargained cases and may not have been mands, citing the law as grounds for the early totally driven by the mandatory minimums. release ofmore than 7700 federal inmates serv- But he also acknowledged he was not aware ing extended time for low-level drug offenses. roughly 5 , 000 crack offenders are still servmg N0dd was one ofthem. She le 代 prison in 2012 , sentences under the 01d 100- tO -1 sentencing having served 21years behind bars. ltwas like I ratiO he once railed against as unJust. grew up in prison," she tells N ル“た , while her "AII l've asked," Durbin said at the hearing, is tO "allow them as individuals tO petition tO the kids grew up in the outside world. By the time she was released, they were adults. judge, tO the prosecutor, tO the Department Of Justice SO that their sentences can be considered. That's something you ve opposed. " Sessions 'WE'RE 」 UST HURTING PEOPLE' GOing intO the final tWO years Of Obama's term, replied that that is a step for Congress to take. "I will 応Ⅱ ow any law that you pass,' he said. many hoped Congress would finally cut a deal on a package ofcriminal justice laws that would GilI and HoIly Harris, executive director of touch on everything from additional drug sen- the U. S. Justice Action Network, a coalition tencing reform, tO mental health and substance Of liberal and conservative reform advocates, abuse treatment for inmates, tO revampmg think conservatives may well pursue those kinds re-entry programs. Sessions opposed nearly all 0f laws in the new Congress. Gill says biparti- of those proposals. "we have learned the hard san interest in passmg cnminal JLIStice reform way that a substantial portion Of criminals whO are released fror れ prison Will return tO cnme and will victimize more people," he warned his Judiciary Committee colleagues last year. Con- cerns about fairness, it seems, have given way tO fear. Sentencing reform advocates argue that crim- inal justice can be b0th fair and tough. "There are states all over the country that are reducing their prison populations, saving money, reduc- ing crime, says M011y Gill, director 0f federal legislative affairs at Families Against Mandatory Minimums, an advocacygroup. Certainly, incar- remains strong, pointing out that Grassley has ceration has some cnme-reducing impact, but it'S made the issue a central talking point. Lee, not the silver bullet thatJeffSessions hopes it is. whO's continued tO push sentencing reform, With Amenca S current rate ofincarceration—the had a terse reply when asked if Sessions s sup- highest in the world—"we re not even getting port for closing the crack cocaine sentencing marginal benefits," she argues. 、、 NOW we re just disparity gave him hope he could win over his hurting people and hurting familie s. " Republican colleague: Ofcourse. Plenty of Republicans have embraced those Nodd, the former lnmate, takes less com- fort in knowing Sessions supported the 2010 argume nts. O ne Of the first state s tO cany out maJOr sentencing reform was Texas, and the lead- law, even though it ultimately led to her early ing co-sponsors ofcriminal Justice reform propos- release from Jail. Her time in prison was still far als include Senator Mike Lee 0fUtah (a Tea Party t00 long, she says, and she doesn't understand stalwart) and veteran Senator Chuck Grassley 0f how her senator could acknowledge that the law lowa, a traditional law-and-order Republican. was unjust but not support applying it tO more Sessions, however, has not been swayed by people like her, who have suffered because of it. 当 learned from my mistake," she says, but it the success Of reforms in red states like Texas didn't "take no 21 years. " ロ or his home state 0f Alabama. But much Of his P A G E 0 N E / D R U G W A R SESSIONS SAID EARLY RELEASE "MERELY GETS CRIMINALS BAC INTO ACTION FASTER. ” NEWSWEEK 18 01 / 27 / 2017

ln 2011 , GLEP and its conservative allies won a 44 on reading, lagging behind Miami by 33 points. maJ0r victory when the Michigan Legislature erased DeVos claimed that her emphasis on school choice the charter schOOl cap, creating what is effectively was going t0 help poor, minority children escape unrestrained-marketfor charte r schOOl ope rator from -underperforming public scho& S0410W. -di&. ----. -. --ーーー一ーー DeVOS scored another victory last summer, when that escape route become a quagmire? she and her husband spent $ 1.45 million to stymie a Kids may suffer from a lack ofchoice, but they can legislative effort tO provide more oversight tO Michi- alSO suffer 仕 om an excess Of competition. Report- gan's charte r schOOl s. ing on the state Of charter schOOls in Detroit last summer, education reporter Kate Zernike of T んビⅣル物ⅸ Times described a system that was as at least as chaotic and unproductive as what it supplanted. "while the idea was tO foster academic com- p etition, the unchecke d growth 0f charters has created a glut 0f schOOls competing for some Of the nation s poorest students, Zernike wrote, enticing them to enroll with cash bonuses, lap- tops, raffle tickets for iPads and bicycles. Leaders of charter and traditional schools alike say they are being cannibalized, fighting so hard over students and the limited public dollars that follow them that no one thrives. Douglas Harris, a professor Of econom1CS at Tulane UniverS1ty, considers himself a proponent Of sensible reform, yet the kind of "lfl wanted tO start a schOOl next year, all I d need reform enacted by DeVOS in Michigan, he has con- 十 TOUGH t0 d0 is get the money, draw up a plan and meet a few cluded, is a disaster. ln a widely circulated op-ed PLAYING perfunctory reqmrements," wrote a dismayed ste- for T んビⅣどル物 Times, Harris wrote that DeVos FIELD: De- troit's public phen Henderson, the editorial page editor 0f schools must the Detroit Free ? . "l'd then be allowed to compete fO 「 students operate that school, at a profit ifl liked, with- with schools out, practically speaking, any accountability DeVos: Detroit has the worst offering cash for results. As long as I met the minimal state bonuses. math and reading scores Of COde and inspection requirements, I could any large city in America. run an awful school, no better than the pub- lic alternatives, almost indefinitely. lt's unclear how closely DeVos looked devised Detroit's system to run like the Wild West. at the achievements Of the charter schools that lt's hardly a surprise that the system, which has sprouted in Michigan because Of her efforts. Did she know that many ofthem were failing? And ifshe almost no oversight, has failed. Sch001s there can d0 knew, why did she do nothing? poorly and still continue t0 enroll students. Harris contrasted Detroit with New Orleans, where the schOOl system is saturated with char- 0 E T R 0 ー T- F しリ N K S ters. Those charters are successful because they re exp e e Üthe ー same higwstandards=thae¯ THE BEST argument against Betsy DeVos can e made with a single word: Detroit. On the National educators demand from students. Lax oversight Of Assessment Of Educational Progress, Michigan's a schOOl district is unlikely tO produce much better ー biggest city has the worst mathan&readingscor esults than lax oversight Of a classroom. Of any large C1ty in America. lts fourth-graders score DeVOS nomination, HarriS 、V1 ℃ te, IS a tri- a 36 on math, while the ir counterparts in Charlotte , umph ofideology over evidence. Much ofthe fault for the panoply ofbad choices in North Car01ina, score an 87. lts eighth-graders got a 4 The best argument against A11 〕 9 、 08 〕 8W00 8 、ゴ 3 工 01 NVÅ88 V 、 9 工 0S0 SO 亠 VO ら」 3 f108 」 NEWSWEEK 41 01 / 27 / 2017

While the liberal media was helping to eJect corrected. ' This was notable because Va れ i り that ultimate white -man devil figure, Roger Aile s, Fa ツ is carefully edited tO avoid any incursions 仕 om FOX News for real and perceived sins against on upper-middlebrow taste, and because Carter, m(it-seemedmot to much mattenwhich), ever attentive tO cultural shifts» wasydespi te h i s the country was making a pussy-grabber presi- longtime hostility to Trump , obviously se e mg dent. The gap between human resources depart- What was coming. ments and the real world is a story not being told Similarly, a few weeks prior to the Trump inau- very well. A story whose ambiguities and nuances gural, Anthony Bourdain, wh0 has struggled t0 could not now be written—nor its real language mix liberal foodie snobbery with the authentic- uttered—be cause the cultural establishment se e s ity Of actual kitchen work and workers, made an no ambiguities and nuances and, for sure, doesn t extra effort tO emphasize his brand and seize the allow those words. But meanwhile, a good part Trumpian high ground (the high low ground , as it were). "l've spent a lOt Oftime in gun country, Of the country—unable tO commumcate with the culture e stablishment—se e s only hypocnsy. G0d-fearing America. There are a hell of a lot of There is a new left and a new right. On the nice people out there, whO are dOing what every- one side there are the unremitting orthodoxies one else in this world is trying t0 do: the best they ofbehavior and language reaching its apogee in can t0 get by, and take care ofthemselves and the that weird children's crusades on college cam- puses, a frightening and ineffectual exercise cultural re-engineering. On the Other side, there are cadres Of radical provocateurs WhO provoke TRUMP CONVERTED their foes into greater and greater flights ofhys- THE CONSERVATIVES' teria—mocking the left's uptightness the way CULTURE WAR INTO A the left used t0 mock the right's. And, on each side, there are SOCial media guerrilla forces MORE VISCERAL CAM- t0 support them. The cultural establishment PAIGN AGAINST SOPHIS- sees its natural allegiance tO the academic and millennialleft, no matter how 100PY. The new TICATED AMERICA. Trump establishment lets the new right rile the new left into an ever-greater lather 0f appalled inexpressiveness: ltS enenues are all fascists, white supremacists, anti-feminists, trans-pho- bics. The more the left is provoked, the more it people they love.... The self-congratulatory tone defends itself, making it more diffcult for any- ofthe privileged left—just repeating and repeat- bOdy in the ever-left-leaning culture business tO ing and repeating the outrages 0f the OPPOSI- deviate from the prescribed rules. tion—this does not win hearts and minds. Gawker, once a ] aunty gossip site, became in its ln bOth instances, the point seems not SO much later years a feral enforcer Ofnew le 代 morality. lts political—C arte r and B ourdain are still lib e ral s— writers, self-righteous, millennial, post-feminist but about a professional realization. Media something- or-others, se emed out tO shame any works better when it reflects than when it resists man they found having sex, except the most for- (its true st huckste rs understand that). Pe ople mal and traditional sort, as base and corrupt. The will chose the authority they recognize ・ lawsuit over lts ainng Ofa secretly filmed sex tape America as a large and Often absurd idea ofwrestler Hulk Hogan that closed the site down used tO be our mapr cultural subJect, a celebra- tion or at least a carnival Of saints and sinners, this past summer was funded by Trump-support- each to be found in life's varied walks, all with ing billionaire Peter Thiel (whose sex ⅱ Gawker had previously outed). The ju1Y that found Gawk- screwy preJudices and unique ways tO express er's shaming of Hulk Hogan a violation of his the disorder of American life. lt is the inability of the media and cultural offcials to deal with pnvacy presumably would not have been t00 bothered by Trump's pussy tape. The old world, Trump s disorderly Amenca—or tO speak tO lt ln sudde nly moreGdéiSCandi1@Of・hüiiåånfoible s a anguage 1 understands'or -tO credibly ma than the new, was striking back. it part Of the stories we tell about ourselves, or ln a recent editor's letter, Va ⅲり Fair's Graydon to find a common joke—that has now helped t0 Carter began a predictabletiradeagainst the ga - &Trump S America center stage—indeed, chene s 0f Trump, only to pause t0 acknowle dge it rather forced itself here. And it's now an that several decades Of political correctness was unavoidable story,Just begging for someone bound t0 breed resentments in the people being to be able to tell it. ロ Åトト 39 ) 3M00d1 工 9 一 /SS3 d 0 一」一 OVd 、 S3N 「・工 0 コ N181V NEWSWEEK 15 01 / 27 / 2017