Maryland and Montana have passed the first laws restricting law enforcement’s access to DNA databases. For several decades, DNA identification has been a standard tool for law…
During non-pandemic times, commuters in many major metropolitan areas spend a lot of time sitting in traffic. In 2019, the last non-COVID year, commuters in the San…
The virtues of an “activist judge,” or the defects, tend to be in the eye of the beholder. A case in point is Jack B. Weinstein, the…
Increasingly, people are finding themselves housed but not homed. Homeownership has declined steeply since the mid-2000s, with more and more folks preferring to rent. The latest signal…
Twenty-seven miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, stand two offshore wind turbines, each taller than the Washington Monument, generating power for up to 3,000 homes.…
Recent reports of a leak of customer data at TurboTax serve as warnings for users of online services. The warning is that people should not use the…
A repurposed warehouse newly coated in eggshell could be just about anything in post-industrial urban America, and if it weren’t for the vertical banners fluttering in the…
Despite four years of sustained hysterics about the supposed Russian-compromised nature of his presidency, Donald Trump’s administration carried out a variety of policies to shore up Europe’s…
On a June afternoon, I picked up my children from their last day of school. It was a school year my county government tried to deny us.…
In Ben Stiller’s 2018 miniseries Escape at Dannemora, about a 2015 prison break in New York’s North Country, there’s a disconcertingly moving exchange between the two soon-to-be escapees…
