Semiquincentennial Blues

We have passed the point at which absurdity is an aberration. The Monster Energy and Crypto. com sponsorships for the evening: very real. The female quotient including no women fighters, only the “Octagon girls” in sequined hotpants and velvet bodices: also real. The United States Marine Band playing a rendition of “The Boys Are Back in Town: too real. A fighter operating under the moniker Black Beast: painfully real.

Massachusetts Set to Extend Statute of Limitations for Rape Cases With DNA Evidence

Following reporting by WBUR and ProPublica, Gov. Maura Healey has pledged to sign a bill into law ensuring that Massachusetts will no longer have one of the strictest rape prosecution deadlines in the country.

“He Didn’t Need to Die. ” How an Immigration Detention Center Repeatedly Failed to Address a Mental Health Crisis.

Geraldo Lunas Campos repeatedly raised concerns about his mental health before he died at Camp East Montana. Records paint a portrait of how the Texas facility’s staff failed to adequately respond.

‘Extraordinarily Profitable Fiduciary Rapport’

The old saying “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” is, in fact, not all that old, and not really a saying. It was written by the Las Vegas Convention

Why European cities keep failing to fight overtourism

Every year before summer, I hear the same stories. Residents in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Venice, and a dozen other postcard cities complain about nuisanc

Trump’s Communist Boogeyman Playbook: Charging Protesters as Terrorists

Matt Sledge, who was at the sentencing for the Prairieland defendants, and Mark Bray on the government’s case against the anti-ICE activists.

Russia’s 11-Hour Assault on Kyiv

The deadly missile and drone bombardment was retaliation for recent Ukrainian attacks on critical Russian infrastructure.

The Horrifying Lessons of 250 Years of American History

President Donald Trump is trying to whitewash America’s past. Could rebellion offer a brighter future?