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On the afternoon of May 2, 2013, Baton Rouge police kicked in the door of 6349 Flag Street, a faded blue shotgun house set atop cinder blocks and surrounded by a chain-link fence and scorched grass. The neighborhood, an unincorporated sliver east of Airline Highway, is almost entirely Black. One in three live below the… Continue reading ‘Lost in this Evil’
In April 2009, federal intelligence officials issued a prescient warning to police departments around the country. “Right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat,” experts in the Department of Homeland Security wrote. “These skills and knowledge have the potential… Continue reading A 2009 warning about right-wing extremism was engulfed by politics. There are signs it’s happening again
On Feb. 29, 2020, hundreds of people packed into the Pullman Christian Reformed Church, a squat, beige brick building on Chicago’s South Side. An attendee began the ceremonies by blasting a shofar, the trumpet made out of a ram’s horn. Somebody played keyboard. And a long line of people waited to speak into a microphone about… Continue reading American Virus
Leila and Gary Blake didn’t want to miss elk hunting season. It was 2000, and the election conflicted with their plans, so the Wyoming couple requested absentee ballots. But the Blakes had moved from 372 Curtis St. five miles down the road to 1372 Curtis St., crossing a town line. When they mailed their votes… Continue reading We analyzed a conservative foundation’s catalog of absentee ballot fraud: It’s not a 2020 election threat
One after another, a dozen young cheerleaders raced across a springy blue mat and flung themselves into a series of roundoffs and backflips, the thump of their hands and feet reverberating through the open Ohio gym. Mishelle Robinson, the gym owner and coach, called out instructions across the cavernous warehouse. "Arms up!" Photos of beaming… Continue reading Cheerleading has a list of people banned from the sport. It was missing 74 convicted sex offenders
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