Last Friday, a trove of evidence was released in the harrowing child abuse case against YouTuber Ruby Franke and her co-defendant, Jodi Hildebrandt. The evidence tells of egregious abuse against Franke’s two young children, who were 9 and 12 at…
When Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition conducted its election campaign last year, it promoted the slogan of “Smiling Poland,” with corresponding brand accents of smiles and hearts. It implied that Poland had receded into darkness under the conservative Law…
On Tuesday, residents of San Francisco headed to the polls to cast their ballots on two major ballot measures that sound as though conservatives could have written them. Proposition F and E would mandate drug screening for individuals who receive…
The recent report issued by Department of Justice details “cascading failures” during the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where, in total, some 380 responding law enforcement officers failed to act as a lone gunman murdered 21 souls….
Seattle is in King County, Washington, where Joe Biden got 75 percent of the vote in the 2020 election. King County had more than 1,000 drug overdoses involving fentanyl in 2023. These two facts are almost certainly related, but which…
In theory, playing an immersive video game sounds fun, maybe even a little exhilarating. That’s the kind of entertainment people want in the metaverse — but it isn’t all fun and games. Police in the United Kingdom are currently investigating…
As it happens, my office overlooks the main drag of Kansas City’s counterculture/ homeless hub. On one lonely day during the weird COVID spring of 2020, I heard screaming out on the street, not unusual here, but when it persisted,…
It should come as no surprise that an enterprising San Franciscan came up with the idea to host a “doom loop” tour of the moldering city on a hill. The plot twist is that Alex Ludlum, who put together the…
Chicago has decided that the best way to stop car theft and the resulting downstream crime is to sue the manufacturers of the cars most likely to be stolen, namely, those from Kia and Hyundai. (A true Pinky and the…
In a move that shocked Goodhue, Minnesota, the town’s police chief and all of the police officers have resigned, complaining about low pay and long hours that were not addressed by the city. Goodhue Mayor Ellen Anderson-Buck said that she…