Remembering When the Ramones Were Young, Raw, and Couldn’t Take a Bad Photo
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Danny Fields discovered and signed the Stooges and MC5. He worked with the Doors and rubbed elbows with the Velvet Underground. That famous John Lennon quote about the Beatles being bigger than Jesus? That was largely Danny’s doing, running Lennon’s quote in the teen magazine…
It Shouldn’t Have Taken Captain America and a Third-Grader to Make Me See White Privilege, But Here We Are
Chris Evans portrays Captain America in “Avengers: Infinity War”Marvel Studios Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every few weeks, Mark would come and visit me. This was six years ago. I was working as a program manager at an outpatient psychiatric clinic in Manhattan’s East Village. His parents both worked at…
Prison Admissions Are Heading Down Faster Than Overall Incarceration
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday I posted a chart showing the (slight) decline in the US incarceration rate in 2016. However, a reader points out that the prison admission rate is more interesting as an indicator of what’s happening right now, and the decline there is more impressive. Here…
The Breakthrough DNA Technique That Led Cops to the Golden State Killer Suspect Is Exciting—and Terrifying
Golden State Killer suspect Joseph DeAngelo (left) and a police sketch of the suspected serial killerSacramento County Sheriff’s Department/FBI/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When the serial murderer now known as the Golden State Killer committed his crimes across California in the 1970s and ’80s, he was extremely careful not…
Democrats Recruited Two Sandy Hook Parents to Run for Congress. They Both Decided It Wasn’t Worth It.
Hockley, Barden, and other Sandy Hook parents ask New Jersey lawmakers to limit ammunition magazines to 10 bullets in 2013.Julio Cortez/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For weeks, western Connecticut residents and national Democrats have been watching and waiting, speculating which of the two parents who lost their sons in the 2012 shooting at…
Most Americans Think Teachers Deserve More Money
Some 50,000 educators marched on the Arizona State Capitol on Thursday.Jeff Brown/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week, thousands of teachers in Arizona and Colorado descended on statehouses to demand better pay and school funding. It appears many Americans agree with them—and support their efforts to shut down…