Army Gen. David Petraeus is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2007. Photo: Lawrence Jackson/AP Pretty much every day since 9/11, the U.S. military has disciplined soldiers who failed to do their jobs properly. They have been punished… Read More ›
Colleen Ryan holds a photo of an office staff, all but two of whom died in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, including her brother, to urge Congress to set up a commission to investigate the events… Read More ›
Members of PATCO, the air traffic controllers union. All strikers were fired on the order of President Ronald Reagan on Aug. 5, 1981. Photo: Bettmann Archive Forty years ago, on August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic… Read More ›
Trump insurrectionists are seen breaching security and entering the U.S. Capitol as Congress debates the ratification of the 2020 presidential election results in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images I don’t take Tucker Carlson seriously. No… Read More ›
A doctor at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention gestures to a colleague in their laboratory in Beijing on April 16, 2013. Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images I was living in Shanghai when a new avian flu virus… Read More ›
The Department of Justice building before dawn in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9, 2021. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images I was sitting at an awards ceremony at my son’s high school last week when I saw an email pop… Read More ›
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks during a press conference in Atlanta on March 17, 2021. Photo: Megan Varner/Getty Images Atlanta is engaged in a very public argument about how to fight rising crime. The mayor’s approach is to barricade the… Read More ›
Crabapple First Baptist Church, where the Atlanta shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long was an active member, in Milton, Ga., on March 17, 2021. Photo: Nicole Craine/The New York Times/Redux Why did Robert Aaron Long kill six Asian women, in three… Read More ›
Issues of Poetry magazine are displayed at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Ill., on Dec. 16, 2009. Photo: Zbigniew Bzdak/Tribune News Service via Getty Images A bedrock principle of the prison abolitionist movement is that you don’t ask an incarcerated… Read More ›
Migrants from Haiti stand near the Zaragoza-Ysleta International Bridge after being deported from the United States in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Feb. 3, 2021. Photo: Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters The celebratory clamor surrounding President Joe Biden’s 100-day deportation moratorium was short-lived,… Read More ›