A reign of terror from coast to coast
The takedown of a Russian darknet marketplace exposed cracks within the cyber-criminal underworld — and the global effort to shut down these digital black markets.
The gun control movement has won important legislative and legal victories since the massacre at the Connecticut elementary school a decade ago. But not significant federal legislation.
Republicans across the country campaigned on crime. Nowhere did it resonate more than in New York.
Running ads portraying Black candidates as soft on crime — or as “different” or “dangerous” — Republicans have shed quiet defenses of such tactics for unabashed defiance. For the Trumpers it was always about all about race.
Gird up your loins for Early Voting Blues
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John Oliver discusses the outlets that cover crime, the incentives that drive them, the flawed sources they rely upon, and an alternative name for Miss Piggy.
Anti-abortion rights legislators have a money trail
U.S. police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.” These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what public safety means, what threatens it, and how to solve it.
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