On March 10th, Congress began celebrating Sunshine Week, an informal celebration of government transparency led by the American Society of News Editors. As part of the festivities, legislators authored a suite of bills and resolutions intended to imp...
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On March 10th, Congress began celebrating Sunshine Week, an informal celebration of government transparency led by the American Society of News Editors. As part of the festivities, legislators authored a suite of bills and resolutions intended to imp...
In 2009, a homeless encampment under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami attained international infamy when it was discovered that all the residents were registered sex offenders. Just last year, another sex offender encampment emerged in the same cou...
In 2009, a homeless encampment under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami attained international infamy when it was discovered that all the residents were registered sex offenders. Just last year, another sex offender encampment emerged in the same cou...
Hours before the AFC championship game this February, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft solicited sex workers at the Orchids of Asia Day spa in Florida. He was charged with soliciting a prostitute as part of a larger bust in which these spas an...
Hours before the AFC championship game this February, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft solicited sex workers at the Orchids of Asia Day spa in Florida. He was charged with soliciting a prostitute as part of a larger bust in which these spas an...
On September 2, 2016, thousands of American pastors and across the country took to their pulpits as part of the annual “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” to discuss the relative merits of the two most unpopular major party candidates fo...
On September 2, 2016, thousands of American pastors and across the country took to their pulpits as part of the annual “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” to discuss the relative merits of the two most unpopular major party candidates fo...
Court debt and bus fares are nothing more than a mild annoyance for most Rhode Islanders: a transaction accepted without second thought when taking the bus downtown or paying off a traffic ticket incurred on Waterman Street. But for the estima...
Court debt and bus fares are nothing more than a mild annoyance for most Rhode Islanders: a transaction accepted without second thought when taking the bus downtown or paying off a traffic ticket incurred on Waterman Street. But for the estima...
On September 11, 2015, 75-year-old Lee Carroll Brooker, a disabled war veteran with chronic pain, received the news he had been dreading for months; his Supreme Court petition, challenging his life sentence for growing three dozen marijuana plants, h...
On September 11, 2015, 75-year-old Lee Carroll Brooker, a disabled war veteran with chronic pain, received the news he had been dreading for months; his Supreme Court petition, challenging his life sentence for growing three dozen marijuana plants, h...
On the morning of March 4, at the São Bernardo do Campo residence of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilians witnessed a scene worthy of a prime time political thriller. Hundreds of Federal Police officers raided da Silva’s home at...
On the morning of March 4, at the São Bernardo do Campo residence of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilians witnessed a scene worthy of a prime time political thriller. Hundreds of Federal Police officers raided da Silva’s home at...
Images of protestors standing at a picket line demanding the protection of workers’ rights characterized the American labor movement. Today, guaranteed minimum wage, health care benefits, and 40-hour work weeks have all become fundamental expectati...
Images of protestors standing at a picket line demanding the protection of workers’ rights characterized the American labor movement. Today, guaranteed minimum wage, health care benefits, and 40-hour work weeks have all become fundamental expectati...
On September 23, Colombians awoke to the unexpected news of a peace accord between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the guerrilla group better known as FARC. The agreement, which has the potential to bring an end to year...
On September 23, Colombians awoke to the unexpected news of a peace accord between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the guerrilla group better known as FARC. The agreement, which has the potential to bring an end to year...
On December 14, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda, announced the shelving of the Sudan case, and instead urged the United Nations to do more to address the situation in Sudan. The decision to suspend this case ...
On December 14, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda, announced the shelving of the Sudan case, and instead urged the United Nations to do more to address the situation in Sudan. The decision to suspend this case ...