Baltimore

This November, voters in Baltimore will decide on a charter amendment that would ban water system privatization preemptively.

• By Sarah Holder

The Baltimore City Council on Monday introduced legislation that would make it illegal for Baltimore to sell or lease its water.

• By Jack Herrera

Tenants allege that a property management firm controlled by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's real-estate company has unjustly charged them fees and threatened eviction to make them pay up.

• By Alec MacGillis

Baltimore has seen a sharp spike in murders since the summer of 2015, which became its most violent year with 344 homicides. In 2016, the city saw 318 people murdered. This year is set to look even worse.

• By Baynard Woods

The city's removal of Confederate statues in the dead of night was Baltimore's latest attempt to make peace with the ghosts of the Civil War.

• By Alec MacGillis

The Department of Justice’s report on the Baltimore Police Department reveals a pattern of cops abusing their communities’ most vulnerable members.

• By Maura Ewing

Maryland State Delegate Jill P. Carter speaks to Pacific Standard about the promises and perils in Baltimore.

• By Elena Gooray

Can a former police officer effect greater reforms from outside the force?

• By John Lingan

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Attract one person and an entire village will follow.

• By Jim Russell

The troubling social psychology of urban violence.

• By Jared Keller

While Baltimore erupts, the Supreme Court considers a timely case.

• By Lauren Kirchner

As businesses and schools close in Baltimore, some of the most important organizations remain open.

• By Francie Diep

The White House Correspondents' Dinner and the Freddie Gray protests.

• By Ted Scheinman

Many of the efforts made to resuscitate dying cities aren't concerned with dying neighborhoods. Sometimes it's easier to just amputate the limbs to save the body.

• By Jim Russell

Expanding on the Situational Crime Prevention theory that making crimes harder or less appealing to commit will make them less likely to occur, two criminologists make the case for "providing opportunities" for would-be criminals to commit their acts legally and safely.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Someone tell the mayor of Baltimore that there are more important things to focus on than population growth.

• By Jim Russell

Since the 1970s, the cry has been to 'Save Our Cities' — often from the seductive call of the suburbs. But now our oldest suburbs themselves are under siege from the same problems.

• By Ryan Blitstein