Law & Defense
Watching Providence retreat into itself after the Brown shooting
A community member looks at flowers, notes, and mementos in a makeshift memorial display sitting in front of Brown University's...
15 dead in Hanukkah terror attack amid wave of rising antisemitism in Australia
Police cordon off an area at Bondi Beach in Sydney after a terror attack at a Hanukkah by the Sea...
Alabama wants to lower the bar for executing disabled people—if SCOTUS lets it
Anyone scoring 70 or above on an IQ test, Alabama contends, is intelligent enough to execute.Mother Jones illustration; Alabama Department...
RFK Jr. blames pills—not guns—for school shootings
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Why America is obsessed with true crime
“I think with true crime, it creates this thirst for punishment,” says incarcerated journalist John J. Lennon.Luke Piotrowski Get your...
Executions are rising in the US. This reverend witnesses them.
“We have a criminal justice system in which the courtroom and the sentence is so far removed from the lived...
Maine voters approve new law to prevent suicides and mass shootings
AR-15-style rifles displayed under an American flag at the Kittery Trading Post, Aug. 9, 2024, in Kittery, MaineAP/Charles Krupa Get...
How Trump’s DOJ wiped out a pioneering anti-violence nonprofit
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To understand that horrific Chicago apartment raid, go back in time—to Texas
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Sam Bankman-Fried and the multibillion-dollar drama over FTX’s ruins
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