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Crime
December 13, 2013
Alice Robb
Copycat Suicides Are Real. Are Copycat School Shootings?
December 5, 2013
Julia Fisher
Mexico's Radioactive-Material Thieves Are Probably Dying Right Now, In Exactly This Way
December 3, 2013
Ian Steadman
There's a $100 Million Bitcoin Heist Going Down Right Now
And you can watch in real time
November 11, 2013
Steven Beschloss
A Young Lee Harvey Oswald's Brief, Troubled Life in New York City
October 30, 2013
Jennifer Kirby
Death Penalty Support vs. Violent Crime: Two Graphs With Very Similar Arcs
October 23, 2013
Michael Schaffer
Maryville, Missouri Is a Lawless Hellhole
And other things you can't say about small towns
October 4, 2013
Alec MacGillis
My Lingering Disquiet Over the Capitol Hill Shooting
October 3, 2013
Mimi Dwyer, Julia Fisher
Only the Capitol Shooting Could Bring LGBT Activists and a Kansas Senator Together
September 16, 2013
Molly Redden
Navy Yard Shooting: “After a while, you just want it to stop, you know?”
June 4, 2013
Saul Elbein
The Most Dangerous Job in the World
How did 900 bus drivers end up dead in Guatemala City?
May 27, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
On "Fetal Homicide," Where Are the Feminists?
The debate about feticide has taken a back seat to abortion
May 8, 2013
Elahe Izadi
Charles Ramsey Can Be Both a Hero and a Meme
It's OK to find humor in the 'viral' star of the Ohio kidnapping story
April 24, 2013
Molly Redden
The Non-Alumni Network
A guide to Harvard's most famous fakers
April 19, 2013
Noreen Malone
The Jarring 7-Eleven Detail in the Boston Manhunt
We didn't expect the alleged bombers to commit such an ordinary American crime
February 8, 2013
Jordan Michael Smith
Where DNA Doesn't Count
Will Kentucky finally give non-death row prisoners the right to test old evidence?
April 20, 2012
Tim Stelloh
Fighting Back
One professor's statistics-driven screen is reshaping the way domestic violence is policed in Maryland
November 24, 2003
Eric Umansky
Toxic
Erin Brockovich's weird science.
January 22, 1966
Stanley Kauffmann
Capote in Kansas
Stanley Kauffman's original review of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"

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