Claude “Butch” Jones would seem an unlikely client for the Innocence Project, a legal foundation that has freed 254 men and women through DNA evidence since 1992. Jones was not, in the broadest sense, an innocent man.
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Forbidding Cameras on the Farm: A Threat to Whom?
On Nov. 23, 2010, in Cayuga County, New York, Phil Niles pleaded guilty to animal cruelty.
‘Parent Trigger’ Laws: Shutting Schools, Raising Controversy
In a barebones basement office in Buffalo, New York, Katie Campos, an education activist, is plotting a revolution.
Mexico’s Meth Warriors
Mexico’s newest drug cartel, and certainly the most bizarre, is La Familia Michoacana, a violent but Christian fundamentalist narco-gang based in the torrid Tierra Caliente region of western Michoacan state.
Religion: Merry del Val Jubilee
For a day last week Rafael Merry del Val stepped reluctantly out of the shadow of the retirement in which he has lived since the death of Pope Pius X, his beloved friend. He celebrated the silver jubilee of his elevation, at the hands of Pius X, to the cardinalate.
What Wisconsin Has Wrought: Labor Unrest Spreads
On Tuesday afternoon, the 12 members of Ohio’s Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee convened in a corner room on the second floor of the state senate building in Columbus. No vote or amendment was on the agenda, just a hearing on what is simply called Senate Bill 5
Europe’s Gay Leaders: Out at The Top
When Iceland installed Johanna Sigurdardottir as Prime Minister last February, newspapers around the globe printed variations of the same headline: ICELAND APPOINTS WORLD’S FIRST GAY LEADER. Everywhere, that is, except Iceland.
MONEY: Empty Pockets on a Trillion Dollars a Year
CAN a nation with a trillion-dollar economy be running out of money? That startling question is forcing itself upon every government official who must shape a budget, from President Nixon down to the head of the smallest local mosquito-abatement district
The Future of Innovation: Can America Keep Pace?
“The first step to winning the future is encouraging American innovation.” That was Barack Obama in his State of the Union address last January, when he hit the theme repeatedly, using the word innovation or innovate 11 times. And on this issue, at least, Republicans seem in sync with Obama
After Mladic’s Arrest, the E.U. Whispers Sweet Nothings to Serbia
In the years following the Cold War and the hemorrhaging of Yugoslavia, Serbia earned the dubious distinction as Europe’s pariah state, widely viewed as a brutal aggressor in the Balkan wars.