We’ve all heard stories about how winning the lottery can actually suck for the winners. But this has to be some kind of record: Back […]
A video of a Saturday-night throwdown at the Cherry Hill Mall has surfaced on YouTube, where it has been viewed many, many times—no doubt by […]
A couple weeks ago, I noted a new UPenn study claiming increased cell phone use was to thank for the mid-1990s crime drop. The idea […]
Eric Early—the younger of two brothers charged in the mid-December shooting of a Bulls fan at SEPTA’s 46th-and-Market station—has been cleared of all charges in […]
Closing arguments started Thursday in the racketeering trial of Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi, the reputed head of the Philadelphia Mob. “The mob is to the criminal […]
Cutting through the distortions and hype, here are facts about the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. None of the guns of the Newtown shooter were automatic […]
Here’s a big problem with the Second Amendment—or, at least, the way we interpret it these days: It presumes that guns are always and everywhere […]
Those wily Russian hackers are at it again, this time coming after our hard-earned American dollars in the form of a massive scam that could […]
There’s a lot of journalistic grumbling about lists, and I get it: They’re sort of cheaper versions of journalism, packaged in an inane format for […]
A new study out of UPenn claims that the decline in urban crime that began in the mid-90s is closely correlated to the rise in […]
On Tuesday Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin announced that an amendment designed to protect the constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties of American citizens has […]
Today, federal authorities announced that they are looking for this woman, whom they accuse of being a child pornographer. They’ve circulated photos in hopes of […]
After last Friday’s events in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association took down its Facebook page and went silent on Twitter. This afternoon, the NRA […]
To many Americans—particularly those who have little interest in guns—the NRA is a shadowy monolith, a faceless network of right-leaning, pistol-toting Charlton Hestons fighting for […]
It is a sad testament to the depth of our national indifference that it took the massacre of 20 first-graders to finally trigger a united […]
