Sounds from Rikers Island

A bit more than three years into his exile from New York City, St. Elmo Sylvester Hope sat for an interview with Down Beat magazine in Los Angeles. He was a diminutive, softspoken man who looked like what his mother had once dreamed he’d become—a professor.

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.

The Judeo-Bolshevist Target

Popular memory in the West tends to separate the Holocaust from the German war against the Soviet Union, but for the Nazi regime they were two faces of the same undertaking.

When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration

We will never know for sure if AI can be conscious. A neuroscientist argues that we shouldn’t wait for proof to decide how to treat it.

Russia’s 11-Hour Assault on Kyiv

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

How Florida’s Cuban Diaspora and the Israeli Lobby Came Together — and Are Coming Apart

The Cuban lobby and AIPAC have gotten what they wanted from Trump — and now they are dealing with the consequences.

Between Independence and Freedom

How a fundamental tension in the declaration echoed through U. S. foreign policy.

The MOU Is Paying Off Early for Iran

Washington and Tehran are grappling over a “memorandum of misunderstanding. ”