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Im in Jackson, Mississippi, reporting out a story about H.The measure is basically a hostile takeover of the majority Black Jackson by the largely white state Congress.The legislation would allow state officials to appoint judges.The stated reason is to help with a backlog of cases, but city lawmake

A dark pattern is playing out in cities across America.A new story about Phoenix helps us understand what's going on.Open in app or onlineYou Can't Blame Homelessness on Addiction A dark pattern is playing out in cities across America.A new story about Phoenix helps us understand what's going on.Zac

On Friday, a CNN correspondent in San Francisco reporting on street crime had her car broken into.She had her computer and passport stolen.In writing up the case, the New York Post notes that The progressive city has been experiencing surging crime, open-air drug dealing and robberies over the last

It's time to stop fucking around with non-solutions like arresting more people.Open in app or onlineKids are going to do drugs.Let's keep them alive anyway.It's time to stop fucking around with non-solutions like arresting more people.Tana GanevaMar 17PreviewSaveTexas teenager Sienna Vaughn thought

The Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), the watchdog devoted to investigating NYPD misconduct, is budgeted at $24.Heres how their oversight goes: a citizen lodges a complaint.Investigators determine whether the complaint is substantiated or unsubstantiated.Unsubstantiated just means that the wit

In the tiresome debate over whether we should defund or reform the police, the pro-reform people emerge as the rational ones.Defund is presented as anarchy leading to inevitable societal collapse.Its also cast as a hopelessly nebulous idea with no concrete definition applicable to the real world.Ope

A little vignette from my 2012 rehab stint in Minnesota.Musings on Maia Szalavitz's new NYT on AA and "the strange marriage of faith and medicine in addiction care." Open in app or onlineIn Rehab, a Nurse Denied Me Buprenorphine A little vignette from my 2012 rehab stint in Minnesota.Musings on Maia

Couldnt Democrats use the data to their advantage to build a better narrative.Open in app or onlineWhy is Ron DeSantis letting murderers and rapists run wild in the streets.Couldnt Democrats use the data to their advantage to build a better narrative.Tana GanevaMar 12PreviewSaveYour election strateg

Lets be optimistic and say humanity has a future.In the future, people are going to look back at the US criminal justice system with shock and horror like we look back at slavery or the people grinning in pictures of lynchings.And the horror wont be limited to the primary perpetrators, but to everyo

America's go-to solution: Call 'em terrorists and blow 'em up.And I review CNN's Town Hall on fentanyl as a tangled knot of untenable contradictions.Open in app or onlineThe War on Drugs Meets The War on TerrorAmerica's go-to solution: Call 'em terrorists and blow 'em up.And I review CNN's Town Hall

Late last night, a group of lawmakers led by Sen.Elizabeth Warren slammed Walgreens for ending plans to dispense Mifepristone, medication that loosens uterine lining to expel a (very) early pregnancy.Its outrageous for MAGA extremists to intimidate pharmacies into refusing to dispense a medication t

That's just the waaaaaaay it is.Open in app or onlineSome thoughts on "That's Just the Way It Is" That's just the waaaaaaay it is.Tana GanevaMar 7PreviewSaveOver at the Column, writer Adam Johnson makes a good point about an obnoxious breed of political pundits: the Not Surprised Guy and his close c

Look, its tough to make a living.Unless youre engaged in the intellectual con of Im a liberal, but The master of this genre is Michael Shellenberger.When I say that I'm a liberal in my compassion for the vulnerable, a libertarian in my passion for freedom, and a conservative in my defense of civil

A few years ago, I wrote about the original Rainbow Coalition for Teen Vogue.The Rainbow Coalition was an alliance between the white Appalachian Young Patriots, Hispanic Young Lords, and Black Panthers in Chicago (Is Teen Vogue Trying to Turn your Daughter into a Black Panther.Open in app or onlineC

Starring in the 1999 HBO documentary "Black Tar Heroin," Tracey Helton's addiction and recovery has been very public and very online.Here is where Tracey's at now.Open in app or onlineActivist Tracey Helton Reflects on 25 Years SoberStarring in the 1999 HBO documentary "Black Tar Heroin," Tracey Hel

Meanwhile, there's no funding for libraries and mental health care.Open in app or online$6 million is the price we pay so cops can beat and kettle protestors.Meanwhile, there's no funding for libraries and mental health care.Tana GanevaMar 1PreviewSaveA judge has awarded $21,500 to each of hundreds

You talk about children being taken away from their parents.My children were taken away from me Rebecca Kiesling said in heartbreaking testimony to Congress Tuesday.Both of her sons died of fentanyl poisoning."You talk about welcoming those crossing our border, seeking protection.You're welcoming dr

Right there, in the second word of the headline, we learn that venture capitalist Michael Moritz is a Democrat.The lede affirms his political leanings with a jab at Tucker Carlson.Even Democrats Like Me Are Fed Up With San Francisco Few subjects please Tucker Carlson more than sticking a shiv into t

As the New York Times reports in a hardhitting investigation about bodega weed, the progress teenagers have achieved in the past decade is in jeopardy (because of the pandemic and also, bodega weed).Before the pandemic upended the lives of American teenagers with such catastrophic results, they were

You know them when you see them.This is a detailed classification of the types who argue against harm reduction.Open in app or onlineA Typology of Harm Reduction Critics Guy in suit.You know them when you see them.This is a detailed classification of the types who argue against harm reduction.Zachar

I smoked weed for the first time long before Id had a sip of alcohol, at age 16.I was in Bulgaria with my parents for a wedding; the son of my parents friends had a joint, and what the hell, I tried it.Another time a friend in Southern California got some pot and we smoked it one afternoon after sch

Alabama has one of the most horrific jail and prison systems in the world.Just last week, in an Alabama jail, a man froze to death after corrections officers put him in a restraint chair, and then left him in the freezer for hours.Fatal overdoses, fatalitiesthey happen almost daily across the state.

Xylazine is taking over certain drug markets.Still, there's a reason people are seeking it out while others want to avoid it at all costs.Open in app or onlineWhy People Use Xylazine Xylazine is taking over certain drug markets.Still, there's a reason people are seeking it out while others want to a

They came for your children with rainbow fentanyl.Dazzle the dog is strung out on marijuana cigarettes.And now, drugs are impacting America's wildlife.Open in app or onlinePercocet Pigeons: The Alarming Rise of Animal Drug Addiction.They came for your children with rainbow fentanyl.Dazzle the dog is

Now here's a story by Glenn Thrush about sexual assault.Open in app or onlineWe can let most women out of prison with no threat to public safety.Now here's a story by Glenn Thrush about sexual assault.Tana GanevaFeb 22PreviewSaveWhat do most mass shooters, terrorists, violent cops, rapists, domestic