Crime

I can’t sit still knowing we’re doing nothing to stop school shootings — After the school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, I can’t wrap my mind around this tragedy. It’s utterly devastating. As a mom to a 9-year-old son, I’m deeply saddened by the loss of three 9-year-old children who were victims of gun violence. …

Had Ford made Nixon face the music then Trump’s mob boss presidency would not have happened — As a historian of U.S. legal history, I’ve been fascinated (and horrified) as I watch the predictable outcome of one fateful decision made on Sept. 7, 1974. Ford gave higher priority to lesser considerations over the foundational ones. The temptation to do so was understandable. But it led to a…

Let’s look at Aiden Hale’s religious details — After the horror shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, many Christians are trying to call the event an anti-Christian “hate crime.” I’m watching Senator Josh Hawley make that case. But is “hate” the story here? I’m examining the religious details. As best I can tell, Aidan, formerly Audrey Hale, went to kill Christian people, and was himself a Christian.

The iHeart podcast network is massive, with downloads, increasing by 90 percent since 2020. The network’s monthly listeners are up to 32 million people in the U.S., and that’s also up 49 percent since 2020. When any network — TV, radio, and podcast — is that large, not every piece…

As I touched on in the article marking JK Rowling’s wacky weekend, the author has once again leaned into using crime related statistics to support her bigoted nonsense. But does it? Lets take a look inside JK Rowling’s latest transphobic argument; — On Twitter the Harry Potter author wrote a tweet to James Dornan, an SNP MSP for Glasgow Cathcart. We’ve already fully addressed her first point in this tweet in other articles, but this second point is new. JK Rowling’s latest transphobic argument is; “there are proportionately more trans-identified males in…

While Number 45 is again making history for all the wrong reasons, there have been others in power to have seen their share of legal trouble. — On 30 March 2023, The 45th President of America, Donald J. Trump was indicted by a New York grand jury following investigations into an alleged “hush money” payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. This makes Trump the first President in US history to be charged with a…