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May 1, 2015
Jamil Smith
Baltimore's Prosecutor Gets It
The charges in the Freddie Gray case show that scaring cops is the best way to fight police abuse
May 1, 2015
Jon Emont
“Welcome to Indonesia, Death Penalty for Drug Traffickers!”
Why the country's new president is executing more foreigners, despite international outrage
April 29, 2015
Stacia L. Brown
Having Black Cops and Black Mayors Doesn't End Police Brutality
A Baltimore writer on racial tension and the limits of diversity
April 24, 2015
Jerry A. Coyne
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Crimes Were Terrible, But Morality Has Nothing to Do With It
March 13, 2015
Nathan J. Robinson
Utah's New Registry for White Collar Criminals Is Inhumane
January 8, 2015
Aurin Squire
Why Black New Yorkers Like Me Are Celebrating the NYPD Work Slowdown
January 5, 2015
Charles Davis
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Has Killed Nearly 50 People in 10 Years. Most Were Unarmed.
And not one officer has been disciplined
December 28, 2014
Sam Eifling
The NYPD Is Using Fear as a Weapon in the "War on Cops" Crackdown
December 24, 2014
Danny Vinik
Tuesday's Shooting in Missouri Reveals the Limitations of Police Dashboard Cameras
December 4, 2014
Juan David Romero
Why Do We Treat Child Sex-Trafficking Victims Like Criminals?
D.C. just fixed its law. More than half of U.S. states still haven't.
December 2, 2014
Rebecca Leber
NYC Police Said Stop-and-Frisks Reduce Violent Crime. This Chart Says Otherwise.
November 25, 2014
Judith Shulevitz
Where UVA Went Wrong: Students Need to See Rape as a Felony, Not Just a Campus Infraction
November 19, 2014
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Why I Helped Search for Missing UVA Student Hannah Graham
October 30, 2014
Ryan Kearney, Hillary Kelly
Which Is Scarier, Clowns or Zombies? A Debate to the Death.
October 23, 2014
Danny Vinik
New Evidence in the Michael Brown Case Points Toward Officer Wilson's Innocence
October 17, 2014
Oliver Bullough
Their Fears Are Coming True: People Are Disappearing in Crimea Now That Russia's in Charge
October 10, 2014
Leon Krauze
Mexico's President Must Not Ignore This Mass Grave of College Kids—or the Corruption It Represents
September 26, 2014
Jesse Singal
Study: Videos of Police Violence Might Worsen People's Biases
September 25, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
A Dash Cam Didn't Stop This White Officer From Shooting an Unarmed Black Man
But it did lead to his firing and arrest
September 9, 2014
Katie Engelhart
Our Jack the Ripper Obsession Is Misogynist
Were Jack the Ripper alive today, would we idolize him as much?

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