February 9, 2016
- FOP is the world's largest association of police unions. A third of its contracts with US cities require the eventual destruction of misconduct complaints.
- Chicago's FOP shapes often-false narratives around victims of fatal police shootings.
- How a law unique to Florida, allowing juries to reach the death penalty by majority rather than unanimously, has put over 170 people on death row.
- How a law unique to Texas allows for white NIMBY-representing state legislators to easily block any low-income housing in their districts.
- Inside the rise of anti-government "Sagebrush Sheriffs" in the West who break or allow their constituents to break federal land management laws.
- What happens in San Francisco now that Super Bowl City has stormed through, displaced people, and abruptly bounced.
- Untold stories of photographers for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces.
- Despite what your favorite progressive media outlet would like you to believe, Hillary's "coziness" with Wall Street can't be demonstrably proven.
- The Tulsa Artist Fellowship is now open to writers—and accepting 2017 applications until March 4.
- Twitter's feared algorithm will be a decidedly lower-key, and more positive, addition than immediate reaction suggests.
- How the Twitter algorithm feed is part of a larger story of platforms trying to contain media.
- Shady, for-profit college corporation that owns the University of Phoenix to go private.
- California's parole of murderers is a massive public experiment with nervous participants on all sides.