by Aaron Mendelson, Center for Public IntegrityFebruary 17, 2023 This story is a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity and Bolts. The Howard R. Young Correctional Institution sits between a creek and Interstate 495 in Wilmington, Delaware. For the last ten years, the prison’s 1,281 residents were counted as constituents of Wilmington’s
by Clark Merrefield, The Journalist’s Resource In most U.S. jurisdictions, an arrest by police does not necessarily lead to criminal charges, especially for low-level offenses. Government prosecutors often have broad discretion over whether and how to charge those arrested, based on evidence law enforcement personnel present them. New research in the Quarterly Journal
People protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, over daily power cuts, July 27, 2022. Sony Ramany/NurPhoto via Getty Images Amy Myers Jaffe, New York University Through a year of war in Ukraine, the U.S. and most European nations have worked to help counter Russia, in supporting Ukraine both with armaments and in world energy markets.
by Megan Rose ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Post-Roe America Abortion Access Divides the Nation For 50 years, Roe v. Wade shut down the biggest ambitions of the anti-abortion movement. Last summer, the Supreme
by Lucy Tu & Jocelyn Viterna Just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Paris-based company HRA Pharma applied for Food and Drug Administration approval of the country’s first over-the-counter birth control pill. The application was a timely response to Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch Parents of LGBTQ students told lawmakers Thursday a bill banning gender identity and sexual orientation from school materials will hurt their children. Lawmakers also heard from parents with Moms for Liberty and others who said the legislation will restore “parental rights.” A Senate Education subcommittee recommended passage
The French food guide rejected previous campaigns to cover Tel Aviv By Mira Fox This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Israeli chefs have been dominating the food world recently. Yotam Ottolenghi’s best-selling cookbooks, Plenty and Plenty More, full
Scott Lucas, University College Dublin It didn’t take long for Syria’s Assad regime to seek political and economic benefit from the devastation of an earthquake. As emergency services were reaching victims of the 7.8-magnitude tremor on February 6, regime-linked organisations demanded governments “immediately end the siege and unilateral coercive economic sanctions imposed on
Vitalii Stock/Shutterstock Sharon Jagger, York St John University The Church of England has announced it will explore alternative words to describe God, after some clergy asked to use more inclusive language in services. The dominance of masculine language for God certainly matters. As feminist theologian Mary Daly wrote: “If God is male, the
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