American Cities

The Real Source of Heroic Behavior

We tend to think of heroes as larger-than-life figures who accomplish physical feats, such as the man who pulled two women trapped in a car from the Colorado floods, or the policeman who rescued a woman and her two children from the mall under fire in Nairobi. And those rescuers are indeed heroic, but we should also be thinking about

Breaking Bad Normalizes Meth, Argues Prosecutor

I work as a felony prosecutor in a town where methamphetamine is our biggest narcotics problem. I’m also a big fan of Breaking Bad, but whenever I ask colleagues (particularly law-enforcement officers) whether they’ve been …

The Cory Booker Problem

The shoo-in candidate for the Senate disappoints those hoping he would be a black leader in the traditional sense and he can no longer coast on diversity

Four Reasons Why Rolling Stone’s Cover Is Upsetting

Objections to Rolling Stone’s article about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have ranged from the fact that the coverage humanizes Tsarnaev to the choice of photo to the fact that Rolling Stone usually, though not always, puts a celebrity on its cover. Here, four compelling arguments from those who have voiced disapproval:

1. In a July 17 letter …

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