Voices
Mass Shootings, Dinner, and the Cognitive Dissonance of Just Living in America
To get through dinner, a movie, or a game, we must temporarily suspend our knowledge that people are being slaughtered all around us.
Voices
To get through dinner, a movie, or a game, we must temporarily suspend our knowledge that people are being slaughtered all around us.
The War on Immigrants
In San Bernardino, volunteers scrambled to provide the mostly Guatemalan arrivals with the help and logistical support that Border Patrol did not.
The War on Immigrants
The builders of the private border wall near El Paso were aided by armed vigilantes who have been capturing and terrorizing migrants.
The Chicago Police Files
Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability has badly bungled the police shooting of Ricardo Hayes.
Tennessee and Alabama both carried out executions using midazolam on May 16. Witnesses described unusual movement. What will the autopsies show?
Prisons in the Virginia Department of Corrections system are not feeding fasting Muslims on time during Ramadan, three rights groups charged in a letter.
The timely reintroduction of this bill addresses the growing number of state restrictions on abortion access.
With two weeks left in the legislative session, Gov. Ned Lamont has yet to express support for the bill, which is the first of its kind in the country.
The criminal justice reform movement’s focus on “nonviolent” offenders has hurt people like Michael Thompson: “Where’s the violence coming in at?”
The War on Immigrants
Locked for weeks or months in solitary cells, mentally ill and vulnerable detainees are plagued by anxiety, anger, depression, and suicidal impulses.
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