The economic meltdown is playing into the hands of crime syndicates and corrupt governments, as people worldwide grow desperate to make ends meet.
By Michael Klare Apr 7, 2009
-
I was fired and I'm making restitution, but I'm dying of shame.
By Cary Tennis
April 29, 2009
-
The LAPD continues to ignore evidence that could help prosecute sexual assaults.
By Abigail Kramer
April 1, 2009
-
As blockbuster rapper T.I. heads for prison, his reality series prompts the nagging question: Can you really scare kids straight?
By Baz Dreisinger
March 31, 2009
-
A long blue line of police officers, backed by a grieving city, gather to say goodbye to four cops who died doing their jobs.
By Gary Kamiya
March 28, 2009
-
I'm having a rough time; I'd like some justice and some peace.
By Cary Tennis
October 2, 2008
-
Before Katrina, all I knew about New Orleans was Bourbon Street clichés. Then I got mugged there and fell for a local boy and the glorious city itself.
By Sarah Hepola
August 29, 2008
-
The reaction to the fatal attack on American tourists in Beijing is very different from the U.S. response to the 1996 Atlanta bombing.
By King Kaufman
August 9, 2008
-
Five days before the computer genius who killed his wife led police to her body, he was remorseless and angry in defense of his innocence.
By Stephen Elliott
July 9, 2008
-
In "McMafia," author Misha Glenny takes us on a startling tour of the new international underworld, documenting the hidden costs of an unregulated global free market.
By Laura Miller
April 16, 2008
-
The former governor's feckless, faith-based clemency policies in Arkansas continued for years after the convicted rapist was released.
By Joe Conason
December 14, 2007
-
The true story of policing in New York under Mayor Giuliani is less flattering than he would have us believe.
By Joe Conason
November 16, 2007
-
How to safely answer online classified ads.
By Farhad Manjoo
October 29, 2007
-
Why can't I get over this? It's not like my family was murdered, or I'm a refugee -- it was just a laptop!
By Cary Tennis
October 18, 2007
-
O.J. 3: Sorry, media hordes. This one won't do boffo numbers. Plus: NHL follows up a big success -- four years later.
By King Kaufman
September 19, 2007
-
A surveillance camera caught onlookers who failed to call the police.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
August 24, 2007
-
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, the city's prisons are overflowing and inmates have mysteriously died behind bars. Critics denounce a justice system in tatters.
By Robin Templeton
August 23, 2007
-
With the announcement of a guilty plea on dogfighting charges, Michael Vick's once-thrilling football career ends in a cloud of stupid cruelty.
August 21, 2007
-
O.J. Simpson's new interview: Yeah, it's weird. Plus: New baseball stat! Uselessness all but guaranteed.
August 3, 2007
-
Boom. Baseball's latest steroid bombshell means we might know more soon. And that's about all. Plus: Warriors go up 3-1 on Mavs.
April 30, 2007
-
France's answer to Rudy Giuliani is riding tough talk on crime all the way to the presidency.
By Elisabeth Franck-Dumas
April 21, 2007
-
Bill O'Reilly and Geraldo Rivera got into a screaming match about an illegal alien accused of manslaughter. Is there a link between illegal aliens and crime?
By Alex Koppelman
April 10, 2007
-
With much of New Orleans still uninhabitable, drug dealers are deluging neighborhoods. Violent crime is surging -- and so is anxiety about the city's recovery.
By Bill Sasser
March 6, 2007
-
Someone took a dump on my early-'90s blue subcompact. I feel targeted and I don't know what to do with my anger.
By Cary Tennis
February 22, 2007
-
Vikram Chandra's exquisite cops and robbers tale breaks the mold of the contemporary Indian novel, bringing Mumbai -- in all its chaos -- gloriously to life.
By Laura Miller
February 5, 2007