How I would remake “My Policeman.” My Policeman does not deserve some of the negative reviews it has received (particularly those knocking Harry Styles’ perfectly good performance as the titular character, Tom), but it does fall far short of the movie it could have been. …

Paul Samuel Dolman is the author of the bestselling “Hitchhiking with Larry David,” and has hosted his singular “What Matters Most” podcast for nine years. When he asked me to be on after having read “Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir”, I immediately checked out his previous guests, and…

In 1981, the AIDS epidemic began, and I was living in ground zero, New York City. I had come out at a very young and precocious 16, and had enjoyed an extremely hedonistic life when I went to college at NYU — lots of drinking and sleeping around, all while…

For a podcast I’m going to be on, Everything is Stories, we decided one of the segments should address how a sweet little gay boy from a loving family turned into such a prodigious liar — to the point of landing him in prison. …

No, we did not invade Afghanistan to liberate women and girls from the Taliban. Yes, for much of the outlying rural population in particular, nothing much changed, and they bore the brunt of the long war. (Taliban fighters have wives and children, too.) Yes, the governments we installed and maintained…

I was personally exposed in a harrowing way to medical paranoia and conspiracy theories around HIV in 2004, during my 9-month stint in prison. Among white inmates, the dominant fear was getting AIDS; among black inmates, there was a general confidence that it was a gay disease, and therefore exclusive…

on the fourth of july you must tell me sweet lies like you put up the stars just for me. on the third or the sixth you can just take the fifth on the fourteenth you can take the bastille. if the glare of the rockets burns my eyes from their sockets, the dawn’s early light will reveal me. then point me due north cause tonight we’ll go forth and run ’til we’re gallantly streaming. oh say what you please

As I listen to the North Carolina D.A. describe Andrew Brown Jr. as a dangerous target to be apprehended at all costs, I hear the same language used against so many suspects caught in the machinery of criminal justice. It starts with two words, “drug dealer.” After this label is…