How news coverage fuels the widespread, misguided perception that crime is up and cities are unsafe

The assassination of Brian Thompson—and the reaction to it—suggests Americans are fed up and feel powerless.

Some were just embarrassing. Many were horrific. All of them should disqualify him from another four years in the White House.

If the vice president really thinks that keeping a gun in her home makes her safer, then she’s much less informed about the issue than she pretends to be.

There’s a story here, if the Harris-Walz campaign wants to tell it.

This was not an abnormal incident. It’s a sign of the times.

Rich homeowners are cutting or poisoning trees for a better view and even better profit. Weak fines won’t stop them.

Trump’s life has been one long criminal enterprise. Democrats, make sure people remember.

Arizona wants to keep Lonnie Allen Bassett locked up for good—despite a Supreme Court ruling that abolished mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles.

Despite Donald Trump’s constant attacks on President Biden as weak, Democrats did more to secure federal financing for public safety this year than Republicans did, a surprising new study finds.

Two years after the high court’s ruling in Bruen, we now live in a world with a constitutional expectation that any firearm is a legal firearm.

Augusto Pinochet’s perceived enemies were drugged, hooded, and tossed into the sea by helicopter. Some of Trump’s fans—including a GOP congressman—find that worthy of praise, or at least humor.

Benjamins are the favorite currency of criminals and almost no one else—and there’s no good reason to go on printing them.

With 274 homicides, 2023 was the deadliest year in Washington, D.C., in more than two decades.

These are the people who made the world worse this year—plus a few who fought the good fight.

Russell Coleman, a Republican candidate in Kentucky, likes to hype up his past as a prosecutor. But his record doesn’t match up.

Retailers are locking up merchandise and closing stores nationwide, citing an explosion in organized theft. Could their losses be attributable to more than just shoplifting?

Russell Coleman’s bid to become Kentucky’s top lawyer has dredged up a troubling record of lenience.

Why has the media gone all in on small time scofflaws when organized financial crime is robbing people straight from their paychecks?

We do have reason to fear what comes next. But what’s happening right now is concerning enough.