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Nicola Gratteri – MOB Justice
An Italian prosecutor takes on his country’s most powerful crime syndicate.
Was Charlotte Dod the Greatest Athlete Ever?
The remarkable career of a Victorian athletic phenom—and the legacy that wasn’t
How Disaster Shaped the Modern City
The lessons of history are clear: Visionary responses to calamities have changed urban life for the better.
A Cubicle Never Looked So Good
What we lose when we have to work from home
WHY HONG KONG'S PROTESTS TURNED VIOLENT
THE ESCALATION IS PART OF A STRATEGY TO UNMASK CHINA’S ABUSES BEFORE THE WORLD.
AMERICAN IDOLATRY MEETS WOKE ICONOCLASM
WHY DO PEOPLE PULL DOWN STATUES?
‘I Am More Optimistic Than I've Been in a Long Time'
The Washington Post ’s Radley Balko was a pioneer in reporting on the disastrous consequences of police militarization and the need for criminal justice reform. Now everyone else is catching up.
Regulate Use of Force
“WHEN YOU’RE CONDITIONED TO BELIEVE THAT EVERY PERSON... POSES A THREAT TO YOUR EXISTENCE, YOU SIMPLY CANNOT BE EXPECTED TO BUILD OUT MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS.”
GUN CONTROL PUTS YOUR LIFE AT RISK
In the 20th century, far more people were murdered by genocidal governments than by armed criminals.
Rethink Crisis Response
PEOPLE WHO CALL 911 SHOULDN’T GET AN ILL-TRAINED POLICE OFFICER, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY’RE DEALING WITH A MENTAL HEALTH EMERGENCY.
HOPE FOR FREE MARKET REFORM IN URUGUAY
ALTHOUGH THE GLOBAL media barely covered last year’s elections in Uruguay, President Luis Lacalle Pou’s victory was significant for ending 15 years of governance by the leftist Broad Front.
End the War on Drugs
DRUG PROHIBITION TURNS POLICE OFFICERS INTO ENEMIES TO BE FEARED RATHER THAN ALLIES TO BE WELCOMED.
Bust the Police Unions
THEY’RE A CONSISTENT FORCE OF ORGANIZED RESISTANCE TO CALMER, SAFER, LESS AGGRESSIVE POLICING.
FICTION - Deep Cut
“Naw, you don’t have to worry about me,” Thomas said, after his mother had finished her characteristically perfunctory warning to us about drugs, alcohol, and rough-looking types. “Paul thinks he’s cool now, though.” ¶ “Paul, when did this happen?” Mrs. Rickley said. ¶ She wasn’t a hip mom, exactly, but she got points for not caring particularly about what her children or their friends got up to.
REBEL FELL
Iconoclasm will rise again
In The Rough
Donald Trump has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his struggling Scottish golf resorts. Lawmakers in Edinburgh want to know where that cash came from.
Stay to Play
Trump cronies, lobbyists, and special interests have boosted the president’s DC hotel. This November, the election isn’t the only thing on the line.
Cold As Ice
Local Sheriffs Are Driving Trump's Deportation Agenda– And Terrifying Communities.
Whose Streets?
Oakland residents convinced the city to rethink how it tackled gun violence. Now, amid calls to defund the Police other cities are eyeing it's strategy.
Buy The Book
Lexipol says its policies keep police departments out of trouble. Critics say they left violent cops off the hook. Buy the book
The Shield
Police Unions are key to undestanding why so many violent officers escape discipline. Will this year's racial justice uprisings finally force reform?
POLICE REFORM IS NOT ENOUGH
The moral failure of incremental change
Lying as an Art Form
Elena Ferrante’s new novel about adolescence explores the power of fictions.
Anatomy of an American Failure – How the virus won
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation.
The Mythology Of Racial Progress
Believing that things are always getting better actually makes them worse.
A Pressidential Guide To Crisis Management
What Trump should have learned from his predecessors
Beware The Digital Cure
Tech companies are helping the government respond to the pandemic. What’s in it for them?
Time, Space, and the Virus
How a pandemic transforms the familiar into the unfamiliar
Seamus Heaney – “How Did I End Up Like This?”
Seamus Heaney’s journey into darkness
The Collaborators
What causes people to abandon their principles in support of a corrupt regime? And how do they find their way back?