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  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    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

  • It's Sarkozy time!

    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

  • Memo to Bill O'Reilly: More immigrants equals less crime

    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

  • "The first time I was back since the storm ... drugs were everywhere"

    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

  • I can't control my murderous thoughts

    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

  • "Sacred Games"

    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

  • Is it dangerous for a woman to wear party clothes on a bus at night?

    My friend's boyfriend doesn't want her riding city transit in going-out clothes. Is he abusive and controlling? Or just protective?
    By Cary Tennis November 9, 2006

  • Streets of ire

    This summer, cities across the U.S. have reported frightening surges in youth violence. After a decade-long reprieve, what's gone wrong?
    By Sarah Karnasiewicz August 25, 2006

  • Killing time

    As murder rates climb alongside the mercury, I'm downright nostalgic for the inner-city homicides of my youth.
    By David Matthews August 25, 2006

  • Destination: Washington, D.C.

    Our famously divided capital has produced novels about white people in power and novels about everyone else. Explore the best of both worlds with Henry Adams and George Pelecanos.
    By Lorin Stein August 14, 2006

  • The lost boys of Colorado City

    Over the past five years, a fundamentalist Mormon "prophet" has banished as many as 400 boys from his Arizona town. Now the teens, once forbidden to even watch a movie, are adrift in a world of drugs, girls and depression.
    By Kimberly Sevcik July 6, 2006

  • Classroom confidential

    Following a number of high-profile sex abuse scandals, high schools across the country have begun carefully policing teacher-student relationships. But is this new vigilance keeping the most committed teachers from doing their best?
    By Sarah Karnasiewicz April 27, 2006

  • Dead certainty

    Driven by an eerie personal connection, Sebastian Junger plunged into the Boston Strangler case -- only to discover that it was a perfect storm of ambiguity.
    By Laura Miller April 19, 2006

  • Dogged reporting

    L.A. local news means all dogs, all the time
    By H.H. November 28, 2005

  • Are babies not equally innocent?

    Bill Bennett's statement about blacks and crime shows that we have not yet achieved America's greatest value: Equality.
    By Cecelie S. Berry September 30, 2005

  • "Oblivion" by Peter Abrahams

    Detective Nick Petrov confronts the case of a missing girl -- and a life-changing brain tumor -- in this sleekly written, suspenseful crime novel.
    By Laura Miller June 6, 2005

  • The myth of media violence

    Contrary to the moralistic claims of Hillary Clinton and others, bloody video games and movies are not a major cause of crime. But they are a powerful drug we don't understand.
    By Andrew O'Hehir March 17, 2005

  • How should John Kerry talk about values?

    Rep. Barney Frank, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Alan Wolfe, Thomas Frank, Andrew Greeley and others weigh in on how Kerry should define America -- and defeat Bush's morality crusade.
    Compiled by Salon staff July 26, 2004

  • Gavin Newsom's mean streets

    San Francisco's mayor hit the national stage when he allowed 4,000 gay couples to wed. But he wishes the world would pay more attention to his new crusade: Reducing crime and despair in the city's poorest neighborhoods.
    By Joan Walsh July 23, 2004

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Gay baseball players, NBA criminals, Gagne's streak vs. DiMaggio's and my favorite sport vs. yours vs. that guy's over there: The readers write.
    July 16, 2004

  • "Veronica Guerin"

    Cate Blanchett's portrayal of the murdered Irish journalist is a blatant Oscar bid. But Joel Schumacher's crude bio-drama never comes close to asking the real questions.
    By Charles Taylor October 17, 2003

  • Blame it on Rio

    Brazilian director Jose Padilha talks about "Bus 174," his shocking documentary about the Rio street kid who hijacked a bus -- and forced a nation to confront its epidemic of violence.
    By David Ng October 8, 2003

  • Beyond good and evil in Baltimore

    HBO's morally complex, richly textured series "The Wire" is not just the best thing on TV -- it's a Homeric epic of modern America.
    By Heather Havrilesky July 12, 2003

  • Wild in the streets of Baghdad

    Belatedly, the Pentagon is cracking down on looting and violence in the Iraqi capital. But U.S. credibility is already deeply damaged.
    By Michelle Goldberg May 17, 2003

  • "Why are movies bad and how do women get dead?"

    Film critic-turned-crime writer Helen Knode on her first novel, the soul-crushing deadness of Hollywood, the greatness of "Titanic" and her relationship with husband James Ellroy.
    By Barbara O'Dair April 2, 2003
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