February 9, 2016

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FOP is the world’s largest association of police unions. A third of its contracts with US cities require the eventual destruction of misconduct complaints.

Chicago’s FOP shapes often-false narratives around victims of fatal police shootings.

How a law unique to Florida, allowing juries to reach the death penalty by majority rather than unanimously, has put over 170 people on death row.

How a law unique to Texas allows for white NIMBY-representing state legislators to easily block any low-income housing in their districts.

Inside the rise of anti-government “Sagebrush Sheriffs” in the West who break or allow their constituents to break federal land management laws.

What happens in San Francisco now that Super Bowl City has stormed through, displaced people, and abruptly bounced.

The vast dark forest was my giant darkroom. Untold stories of photographers for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces.

Despite what your favorite progressive media outlet would like you to believe, Hillary’s “coziness” with Wall Street can’t be demonstrably proven.

The Tulsa Artist Fellowship is now open to writers—and accepting 2017 applications until March 4. #sponsored

Twitter’s feared algorithm will be a decidedly lower-key, and more positive, addition than immediate reaction suggests.

How the Twitter algorithm feed is part of a larger story of platforms trying to contain media.

Shady, for-profit college corporation that owns the University of Phoenix to go private.

California’s parole of murderers is a massive public experiment with nervous participants on all sides.