She Worked One of the Real Cases Behind “True Detective.” She Says We Still Haven’t Learned Its Lessons.
Lisa Waddell / ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Mara Leveritt looks back on her time covering the West Memphis Three case, she is reminded of her favorite quote from Joseph Conrad: “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” In…
Shocking Video Shows Florida Sheriff’s Deputy Calling a Black Man “Boy” and Grabbing Him by the Neck
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A sheriff’s deputy in Florida was recently put under investigation following the review of disturbing body-cam footage. The video shows the officer approaching a black man, Allen Floyd, who was seated quietly on the sidewalk with a baby, and then aggressively calling him “boy” before…
The Award-Winning Author Who Wrote a Book From Prison, One Text at a Time
Behrouz BoochaniCourtesy of Amnesty International Kurdish Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani has spent nearly six years locked in a detention center on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, barred from entering Australia under the nation’s hardline immigration policies. But prison didn’t stop Boochani from writing a book, composed one WhatsApp text at a time to his…
“We’re About to Make Pimps’ Jobs Real Easy”: The Shutdown Has Put Trafficking Victims in Harm’s Way
Favor_of_God/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At Courtney’s House, a Washington, DC, center for young sex trafficking survivors, founder Tina Frundt has been seeing kids every day who are afraid of the government shutdown. They’re worried, she says, that it is affecting the many services they sorely need. She spoke of one 19-year-old she works…
Two Presidents. Huge Protests. Trump Saber-Rattling. An Expert Explains What’s Happening in Venezuela.
Venezuela’s National Assembly head Juan Guaido speaks to the crowd during a mass opposition rally against leader Nicolas Maduro on January 23, 2019.Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, on Wednesday to demand that the country’s longtime president, Nicolás Maduro,…
It Took Nearly 50 Years, But New York Finally Just Decriminalized Abortion
A demonstrator holds up a banner saying “Keep Abortion Legal” in front of Trump International Hotel in New York City, on January 20, 2018. Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, pro-choice activists have pushed to reform abortion access in one of the country’s…