We Need Data to Re-Build Trust in Our Police Departments
Transparency will make it much easier to build better relations between officers and the communities they’re meant to…
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Apple and Others Help Customers Donate to the Red Cross, and Only the Red Cross
Despite yet more evidence of trouble with the Red Cross’ disaster response — this time to floods in Louisiana — Apple, Amazon,…
Incentives Shouldn’t Shape Public-Assistance Policy
We’re writing laws based on how we think people behave, not how they actually do. By Kalena Thomhave…
Support for Taxing the Rich Is Growing
And that’s the case among members of all political parties. By Martin Hart-Landsberg The top of a form…
How the Eternal City’s Building Craze Also Bolstered Urban Planning
A look at the architectural archives from 17th-century Rome. By Steve Moyer Palazzo Aldobrandini. (Photo: sailko/Wikimedia Commons) As…
The God Drug: When Religion Becomes an Addiction
In recent decades, the idea of recovery from addiction to religion has taken root, particularly in Christian America.…
The Next Stage for Garrison Keillor
A radio icon in retirement. By Peter Tonguette Garrison Keillor takes a break from signing copies of his…
Texas Is One of the Most Dangerous Places in the Developed World to Have a Baby
Two new reports show maternal deaths and severe complications rose as the state slashed funding for family planning,…
Touring the New World Trade Center With Its Official Biographer
The nation of the Wright Brothers has taken back the sky. By David Skinner One World Trade Center’s…
How Thousands of Doctors With Revoked Licenses Are Still Getting Paid
Physicians whose state boards have sanctioned them for harming patients, unnecessarily prescribing addictive drugs, bilking federal insurance programs,…