Tue, Jun 11 2019

No exaggeration is necessary. Civil asset forfeiture is based on the premise that a piece of property can be guilty of a crime. Under the theory, if the police suspect that cash, a car, a house or even a business was obtained through proceeds of a…

WASHINGTON — Late at night, using his old personal cellphone number, President Trump has been calling former advisers who have not heard from him in years, eager to discuss his standing in the polls against the top Democrats in the field…

Layleen Polanco in an undated photo. The 27-year-old transgender woman who died on Rikers Island Friday was being held in solitary confinement at the time of her death, sources told THE CITY. Layleen Polanco was a member of the House of…

Last week at Columbia, CJR hosted more than three dozen public editors from around the world, gathered together for their annual meeting. Brazil, India, Australia, Denmark, Estonia, and South Africa were among the nations represented. And the…

In 2018, psychology PhD student William McAuliffe co-published a paper in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behavior. The study's conclusion — that people become less generous over time when they make decisions in an environment where…