El Salvador Is Trying to Stop Gang Violence. But the Trump Administration Keeps Pushing Failed "Iron Fist" Policing.
The U.S. government is funding important new gang rehabilitation programs with one hand, and punitive policing with the other.
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Los puertorriqueños y los puertopians ultrarricos están enfrascados en una lucha irreconciliable por cómo rehacer la Isla
Una pregunta domina la recuperación luego del huracán María: ¿Para quién es Puerto Rico, para los isleños o para los forasteros adinerados?
Victims of Criminal Cops in Chicago Are Fighting to Overturn Their Wrongful Convictions
A gang of corrupt Chicago police officers fabricated evidence and then conspired to support arrests by falsifying reports and lying under oath.
Photo Essay: Out of Hiding, Female Rebels in Colombia Face Uneasy Transition to Civilian Life
After 50 years of warfare, the FARC guerrilla movement has reached a peace accord with the Colombian government. But demobilization is not easy, particularly for female fighters.
Troubling Study Says Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Who Will Be Criminals Based on Facial Features
A new study says computers can tell whether you will be a criminal based on nothing more than your facial features.
Dean Rusk Also Missing, Feared Dead
Niall Ferguson proves that if you compare Henry Kissinger’s least murderous act of secret foreign intervention to John Foster Dulles’s most murderous, Kissinger comes out as less murderous.
Santa Muerte, Full of Grace
My new cellmate snuck over to Dallas from Mexico when he was 15, became the leader of a gang, did a year in state prison for shooting another drug dealer with a shotgun, and worships Santa Muerte, the skeletal narco-deity beloved throughout the Mexican underworld.
Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers
Someone tried to infect famed Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman and journalist Jorge Lanata with spyware. But we've linked the attacker's server to a broader campaign of spying.