Members of Congress are joining criminal justice reform advocates to demand that some people currently in prisons be released to…
Measures in response to the coronavirus are rapidly progressing in the US, with workplaces, restaurants, and public events being shuttered…
Viruses are great levelers. So it is with COVID-19, which has no regard for social status or affluence. We are…
Farm workers are increasingly dying of suicide, according to new research. Farmers are suffering the combined burdens of falling commodity…
There has been a spate, in recent years, of public defenders speaking out against injustice, then getting in trouble for…
People held in jails and prisons throughout the US are at heightened risk of contracting COVID-19, thanks to crowded conditions,…
In 2012, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) collected data on everyone arrested in the last four years, and used it…
Vaping-associated pulmonary illness reportedly contributed to 68 deaths through February 18, 2020. After an initial, misplaced drug scare around nicotine…
Protesting residents of the mostly white, working-class neighborhoods of Holmesburg and Mayfair in Northeast Philadelphia accepted back in 2013 that…
Ali Reza Madadpur was waiting outside a house in Iran in November 2011. He had come for his first day…