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  1. sam bankman-fried
    SBF’s New Plan to Win in Court: AdderallDoes the fallen crypto CEO actually need his meds, or is this another game?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  2. jeffrey epstein
    Jeffrey Epstein Once Had Chlamydia and Tried to Contact Larry Nassar From JailAnd other revelations from the latest report on the sex criminal’s final days in jail.
    By Matt Stieb
  3. crime
    The Case of the Fake SherlockRichard Walter was hailed as a genius criminal profiler at murder trials, at forensic conferences, and on true-crime TV. In reality, he was a fraud.
    By David Gauvey Herbert
  4. the city politic
    One Lawyer, Three Jobs, 106 CasesThe city’s public defenders are struggling.
    By Nia Prater
  5. episodes
    Kanye West Can Be Bipolar and Accountable for His AntisemitismThe case for holding someone accountable for harmful actions does not rest on whether they had full agency over their behavior.
    By Eric Levitz
  6. the system
    Why Is the Firing Squad Making a Comeback?South Carolina’s push to bring back an archaic execution method says a lot about the state of capital punishment today.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  7. politics
    How New York’s Bail-Reform Law Became a Political Lightning RodAmid a pandemic-era spike in violent crime, critics of the 2019 legislation have put supporters like Governor Hochul on the defensive.
    By Nia Prater
  8. the city politic
    Judges Can Be Dangerous, TooMayor Adams and other bail-reform opponents want judges to be able to use “dangerousness” to set bail, but that comes with its own perils.
    By Errol Louis
  9. criminal justice
    Is Solitary Confinement Here to Stay at Rikers Island?The movement to ban it slammed into a wall of opposition, first from Bill de Blasio and now from Eric Adams.
    By Matt Stieb
  10. criminal justice
    David Simon Made Baltimore Detectives Famous. Now Their Cases Are Falling Apart.Has reality caught up to the “Murder Police”?
    By Lara Bazelon
  11. criminal justice
    Alvin Bragg to Do Away With Prison Time for Most CrimesThe new Manhattan DA will stop prosecuting lower-level offenses ranging from prostitution to fare evasion.
    By Benjamin Hart
  12. lgbtq rights
    She Supported Her Child Being Trans. So the State Separated Them.Thanks to a crackdown on LGBTQ families, the case of Katee Churchill could be just the beginning.
    By Roxanna Asgarian
  13. criminal justice
    This Wasn’t About Jussie SmollettThe actor’s trial was a proxy for a very different fight.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  14. ahmaud arbery
    The Legal Uses of BlacknessWhy attorneys in the Ahmaud Arbery case did — and didn’t— invoke his race.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  15. politics
    It’s Andrew Cuomo’s Turn to Face JusticeThe disgraced governor has favored tough-on-crime policies — except for people like him.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  16. politics
    Everyone in San Francisco Has Something to Say About ChesaChesa Boudin is the nation’s most progressive prosecutor in one of the country’s most liberal cities. Now, many residents are trying to throw him out.
    By Daniel Duane
  17. book excerpt
    The Female Inmates Fighting California’s Wildfires“Your feet have a pulse of their own. Your face feels like it’s about to melt off.”
    By Jaime Lowe
  18. criminal justice
    When Will Joe Biden Start Using His Clemency Powers?The president has signaled he wants to grant more pardons and commutations. The time to begin is now.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  19. criminal justice
    Progressives Don’t Need to Downplay Rising HomicidesVictims of community violence deserve the left’s solidarity and policy solutions.
    By Eric Levitz
  20. the city politic
    Who Will Replace Cy Vance As Manhattan District Attorney?A crowded field of progressives could spell victory for Wall Street’s favored candidate.
    By James D. Walsh
  21. 2021 elections
    ‘It’s Not Enough to Be Progressive. You Have to Have Been There.’Tahanie Aboushi is running to be Manhattan DA after her own family was prosecuted.
    By Sarah Jones
  22. crime
    America Saw a Historic Rise in Murders in 2020. Why?“If you wanted to think of this as potentially erasing several decades worth of progress, that wouldn’t be an overstatement,” says one expert.
    By Jesse Singal
  23. ghouls
    Trump Is Killing People on His Way Out of the White HouseThe president’s definition of “law and order” is a bloody one.
    By Sarah Jones
  24. police unions
    The Inevitable Trump-Police Union AllianceHow a New York City police union’s rare endorsement of Trump explains their shared ideology.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  25. 2020 elections
    The ‘Tough on Crime’ TicketThe historical irony of a Biden-Harris ticket during a criminal-justice reckoning.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  26. bill de blasio
    Bill de Blasio Is Using New York’s Murder Rate to DemagogueThe mayor doesn’t know why murder rates have risen in the city. But he’s using them for political purposes anyway.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  27. death penalty
    The Capricious Execution of Daniel Lewis LeeThe federal government has put its first prisoner to death in 17 years. It’s still unclear why.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  28. george floyd protests
    All 4 Officers in George Floyd Case Now Face ChargesMinnesota attorney general Keith Ellison raised the charges against Derek Chauvin, allowing him to charge three other former police officers.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. policing
    Cops Get Away With Murder Because They’re PopularThe police are legally unaccountable because they’re politically powerful. Reforms must attack — and circumvent — the sources of their power.
    By Eric Levitz
  30. veepstakes
    The ‘Law and Order’ TrapSome Democrats are agitating for Biden to try to get to the right of the Republican Party on crime. They shouldn’t.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  31. ahmaud arbery
    Never Stop RunningOn the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  32. covid-19
    Who ‘Deserves’ Jail During a Pandemic?The Cook County Jail in Chicago is America’s biggest coronavirus hotspot. Why did we allow this?
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  33. coronavirus
    Coronavirus Fears Spark Prison Strikes, Protests, and Riots Around the WorldFrom Colombia to France to the U.S., prisoners are struggling to protect themselves where their jailers won’t.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  34. death penalty
    Colorado Abolishes the Death Penalty, Becoming the 22nd State to Do SoGovernor Jared Polis obeyed COVID-19 era social distancing mandates and announced his historic signing via press release.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  35. coronavirus
    Officials Are Using the Coronavirus to Expand the Criminal-Justice SystemOfficials are asking for — and doling out — increased law-enforcement power.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  36. coronavirus
    Pandemics Are a Great Reason to De-carcerateCoronavirus could wreak havoc on jails and prisons. If their inhumane conditions weren’t a self-evident reason to shrink them, this should be.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  37. criminal justice
    On Criminal Justice, Biden Has No Moral Standing Over TrumpOne of Trump’s main general election strategies will be contrasting the two men’s records. And it looks bad for Biden.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  38. vision 2020
    Black Protesters Might Have Doomed Amy Klobuchar’s Presidential CampaignThe day before she dropped out of the race, Klobuchar canceled a campaign rally in Minnesota due to protests.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  39. criminal justice
    Jussie Smollett Is a Distraction From Criminal-Justice Reform in ChicagoThe actor is in court again — on the eve of the Illinois elections.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  40. immigration
    Biden and Bernie Pivoted on Deportations. America Must Go Even Further.Temporary moratoriums and only deporting “violent criminals” isn’t enough.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  41. michael bloomberg
    Op-Ed Asks: ‘Is Bloomberg Racist?’ Voters Should Answer: ‘Who Cares?’To argue that Bloomberg’s policies as mayor were racist because he’s dense rather than evil is not consoling.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  42. pardons
    The Lesson Trump Pardonees Learned in Prison: Prison Is Brutal and UnfairThe Trump era is marked by many people’s dawning realization of how awful prison is when they personally have to endure it.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  43. nypd
    NYC Prosecutors Keep Lists of Police Officers Who Lie Too MuchThere’s no indication that these officers have had their other policing duties restricted.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  44. michael bloomberg
    Why ‘Stop and Frisk’ Hasn’t Arrested Bloomberg’s RiseThe former New York mayor’s ascension up the 2020 ranks, especially among black voters, seems incongruous. It’s not.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  45. criminal justice
    Trump Forgets That Criminal-Justice Reform Is His New BrandLast week, he was bragging about being forgiving. This week, he’s praising China for executing drug dealers.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  46. policing
    NYC’s Police-Union Leaders Are UnhingedThis is not normal behavior.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  47. mass incarceration
    The Justice Department Investigates Mississippi PrisonsThirteen inmates have died since December 29.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  48. iowa caucuses
    Iowa’s Election Crises Won’t End With Monday Night’s Caucus DebacleIowa is the only state that bans people with felony convictions from ever voting again.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  49. criminal justice
    What Donald Trump Wants From Black AmericansTrump’s Super Bowl ad about criminal-justice reform exemplifies the attitude he expects black Americans to have toward injustice.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  50. democratic primaries
    Amy Klobuchar’s Dismal Polling With Black Voters Should Be Even WorseMyon Burrell’s murder case has the Minneapolis NAACP and Black Lives Matter Twin Cities calling on the senator to suspend her campaign.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
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