Photo: Joe Biden visits the US-Mexico border and speaks with patrol officers along the border fence to assess border enforcement operations. (DHS photo by Tia Dufour) President Joe Biden recently staged a photo op at the border on his way to a summit in Mexico, having just unveiled a new plan to address the border
The state legislature in Indiana is looking to stop judges from reducing bail for violent criminals to next to nothing. It’s also looking to stop a charitable bail organization from stepping in to pay for the release of criminals back onto Indianapolis’ streets. It’s part of a national pushback against bail reforms sparked by high-profile
Eric M. Smith, who was 13 when he killed a 4-year-old boy with a rock in western New York, has been granted parole, corrections officials said on Saturday. Smith, now 41, appeared for the 11th time before the Board of Parole on October 5 and was granted release as early as Nov. 17, the Department
Here we go again. Another round of scare stories about the impending doom of Social Security. Headlines, such as this one in my local newspaper — ” Social Security Moves Closer to Bankruptcy ” — have many of my readers on edge. These kinds of headlines were prompted by a report released last week from
Fresh off sweeping electoral victories a decade ago, Republican politicians used census data to draw voting districts that gave them a greater political advantage in more states than either party had in the past 50 years, according to a new Associated Press analysis. That advantage, measured by a formula designed to detect potential gerrymandering, allowed
Getting police and community on board with reforms is crucial for success. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Thaddeus L. Johnson, Georgia State University and Natasha N. Johnson, Georgia State University The guilty verdicts delivered against Derek Chauvin on April 20, 2021, represented a landmark moment – but courtroom justice cannot deliver the sweeping changes most Americans feel
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