Virginia State

Charlottesville, VA

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Lacey, WA

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The Quick Historian

In Lacey, Washington, a 54-year-old man received a prison sentence of nearly 14 years for his harrowing crimes against his wife, including kidnapping and an attempted live burial. The sentencing, announced by the Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney's Office on April 24, follows Chae An's guilty plea to attempted second-degree murder. Post-incarceration, An is mandated to spend 36 months under community custody.

Man sentenced for burying wife alive

Georgia State

Catoosa County, GA

Ringgold, GA

In a disturbing case from Catoosa County, Georgia, 24-year-old Dillan Michael Tennant has been sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison after being found guilty of two counts of first-degree cruelty to children.

Man who beat children, 2 & 3, over dirty bedroom is sentenced

Minneapolis, MN

The New Republic

The United States is experiencing an invisible crime spree—by employers. Since 2014, the number of children employed in violation of labor law has quadrupled. Wage theft (i.e., violations of minimum wage and overtime laws) reduces paychecks by an estimated $50 billion per year, or more than half what retail outlets lose from shoplifting. And last year nearly 20,000 charges of unfair labor practices were reported to the federal government, the highest level since 2017.Unlike the property crimes that politicians talk about (which fell 59 percent between 1993 and 2022), violations of labor law are committed by respectable citizens in no...

The Pitiful Penalties for Violating Labor Law

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

A Jacksonville man who spent more than 44 years in prison is suing over his wrongful arrest. Willie Williams was convicted of attempted murder in a store robbery in 1975 and sentenced to life in prison, a crime he always insisted he did not commit. He was paroled in 2020 at age 79.

Freed Jacksonville man sues after 44 years in prison

Arizona State

Winterhaven, CA

One of the most
terrifying features of the climate crisis is how it jeopardizes our access to
water, without which we cannot live. Some two billion people lack safe drinking water, while
about almost two thirds
of the human population suffers water scarcity for some part of the year. This in
turn imperils food security, since agriculture is impossible without water. As climate
change exacerbates water shortages, water profiteering is making the problem
even worse. The barbaric capitalist insistence on treating water as a commodity
incentivizes scarcity and hoarding, as well as imposing ever more extreme
levels of thirst upon the world’s poor. Responding
to the threat of profiteers exploiting...

We Don’t Charge People for Air. We Shouldn’t Charge for Water, Either.

Keswick, VA

Earlysville, VA

North Garden, VA

Palmyra, VA

Keene, VA

Free Union, VA

Troy, VA

Crozet, VA

Covesville, VA

Scottsville, VA

Barboursville, VA

Esmont, VA

Greenwood, VA

Ruckersville, VA

Dyke, VA

Somerset, VA

Gordonsville, VA

Faber, VA

Schuyler, VA

This week, coverage of the campus protests and solidarity encampments at Columbia University reached a fever pitch. They have attracted statements from the White House and from Israeli government officials condemning their existence. This animosity, in turn, has inspired similar protests at universities across America. Some politicians, like Senator John Fetterman, have invoked the 2017 Unite the Right rally of virulent white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a cheap means to characterize today’s protests as dangerous and antisemitic. I am a survivor of that white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville. I was also part of the counterprotest against the infamous...

The Grotesque Slander of Comparing Gaza Protesters to Neo-Nazis

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