Leading Democrat in Maryland Senate Race Once Blamed Murders On Decriminalized Pot
Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks ran tough-on-crime campaigns for prosecutor. Now she’s fashioning herself as a reformer.
Justice
Companies Already Ban the Use of Their Drugs for Lethal Injection. Now They’re Blocking IV Equipment.
Medical manufacturers say states can’t use their IV equipment to kill, a stance that could fuel new challenges to lethal injection.
Voices
Cop City Indictments Threaten Press Freedom Too
The message is clear: Try to spread opinions cops don’t like through the media, and you might be charged next.
Guatemalans Guarded the Memory of Democracy Through Years of War and Corruption. Now They See an Opening.
Hope for a revival of the “Guatemalan spring” — cut short in 1954 by a CIA-backed coup — lifted Bernardo Arévalo’s unlikely campaign.
Voices
Defying RICO Indictment, Faith Leaders Chain Themselves to Bulldozer to Stop Cop City
In solidarity with those facing racketeering charges, protesters against the planned police compound chose to stand their ground against state repression.
Voices
Undercover Federal Police Shot and Paralyzed Unhoused Man in Wheelchair
According to Brooks Roberts’s wrongful shooting claim, officers opened fire when they saw he had a gun — but he thought his brother was being robbed.
Voices
I Worked in Federal Prison Sweatshops for 23 Cents an Hour
Federal Prison Industries dangles the promise of workforce readiness as it exploits incarcerated workers like me.
The War on Immigrants
Floaters: Our Reflection in the Rio Grande
Migrant children are drowning at the border. Their deaths are met with indifference. Rescue workers call these bodies “floaters.”
Payday Lenders Gave Millions to Republican Group That Backed Supreme Court Suit to Annihilate CFPB
The Republican Attorneys General Association fought to help a Supreme Court case against the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.
FBI Hoovering Up DNA at a Pace That Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and Counting
China and the U.S. are collecting the same proportion of their populations’ DNA profiles — and the FBI wants to double its budget to get even more.