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Some thoughts on the Substack controversy

Donald Trump's mask-off assault on immigration

Lines in the sand

Our broken death investigation system

Friday fun update: "Look at what the kids are doing!"

On crime in Golden Valley

Roundup: Baton Rouge police kept a torture black site, local officials arrest critics and protesters, Texas prepares to execute a man convicted with disproven Shaken Baby Syndrome, . . . and 76 hams

Sarah Huckabee Sanders denies clemency to Charlie Vaughn

The states of indigent defense: part one

For just $450, you and Jeff Sessions can honor one of the worst sheriffs in the country

Reader mail

The perpetual crisis in indigent defense

Daisy had other plans

Roundup: Racially disproportionate police stops return to NYC, FBI wastes public money baiting protesters into crimes, the right crushes on (yet) another authoritarian strongman

My questions for the GOP candidates

A Q&A with the visionary "nerd" who's trying to make expert testimony more reliable

Roundup: LA police union likens journalism to "stalking," dangerous heat overwhelms prisons, a horrific wrongful conviction in Australia

Rise of the Warrior Cop, 10 years on

“The attorney general is here. We gotta go now."

Roundup: Barry Jones is free, another awful AEDPA ruling from SCOTUS, and a steep drop in the murder rate

What if we treated wrongful convictions and bad police shootings the way we treat plane crashes?

Devil in the grooves: The case against forensic firearms analysis

Hi! You've been referred here because you repeated a false claim about California's shoplifting law

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Meet the nutty Tennessee Republicans trying to kill police reform in Nashville

The smearing of Garrett Foster

Reader mailbag: Is *all* the evidence bad? Plus abortion, the January 6th defendants, and favorite cities

Roundup: The DOJ's damning report on Louisville PD, Republicans work to disenfranchise urban voters on crime policy, Max's two-week adventure

Shrugging in the shadow of a monster

Roundup: Our horrific jails and prisons, courts find new ways to immunize cops from lawsuits, the outrageous police killing of Richard Ward

Reader mailbag: Bias in journalism, criminal justice in pop culture, and how my own politics have changed

Roundup: A guide to the Tyre Nichols case, some progress in Arizona, and the harrowing police shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer

Tyre Nichols wasn't murdered because of "affirmative action"

For police PR flacks, quack lives matter

No-knocking in North Carolina

Roundup: Pittsburgh chief says city cops will ignore ban on trivial traffic stops; QI gone haywire; a horrifying jail death in Arkansas

Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein should resign

On broken brains, a broken system, and burning it all to the ground