A dark pattern is playing out in cities across America. A new story about Phoenix helps us understand what's going on.
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On Friday, a CNN correspondent in San Francisco reporting on street crime had her car broken into. She had her computer and passport stolen. In writing…
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We did this to them. It's time to stop fucking around with non-solutions like arresting more people.
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The Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), the watchdog devoted to investigating NYPD misconduct, is budgeted at $24.5 million annually. Here’s how…
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In the tiresome debate over whether we should defund or reform the police, the pro-reform people emerge as the rational ones. Defund is presented as…
A little vignette from my 2012 rehab stint in Minnesota. Musings on Maia Szalavitz's new NYT on AA and "the strange marriage of faith and medicine in…
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Couldn’t Democrats use the data to their advantage to build a better narrative? No. No they can’t.
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Let’s be optimistic and say humanity has a future. In the future, people are going to look back at the US criminal justice system with shock and horror…
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America's go-to solution: Call 'em terrorists and blow 'em up. And I review CNN's Town Hall on fentanyl as a tangled knot of untenable contradictions.
Late last night, a group of lawmakers led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed Walgreens for ending plans to dispense Mifepristone, medication that loosens…
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That's just the waaaaaaay it is!
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Look, it’s tough to make a living. Unless you’re engaged in the intellectual con of “I’m a liberal, but … “ The master of this genre is Michael…
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