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Document misconduct in a progressive stronghold, and the response arrives not as a rebuttal but as a physical threat.

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Despite the widespread use of states of emergency, the increasingly militarized response to organized crime, and the growth of criminal economies, the murder rate in 2025 across Latin America and the ...

The rooster thinks he summons the sun because the sunrise always follows his crow. Correlation, at its worst, is a very confident rooster. For decades, our data economy has run on the same illusion: ...

RALEIGH — I’m an early riser. I have been since early adulthood — long, long before any hungry children, or a certain German Shepherd, came along to command my early-morning attention. If you had ...

This graphic is part of a special report on consciousness. Read the full feature here. Theorists have proposed many explanations for consciousness. They are startlingly diverse, with different goals, ...

Few things are as dependable in television as the annual onslaught of true-crime nightmares. Each year, a new crop of gruesome, devastating and, admit it, often fascinating documentaries about the ...

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been a full decade since Making a Murderer set off the modern true-crime boom. These days, streamers flock to series and films that delve into the more terrifying ...