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Could an astonishing explanation for the rise and fall of violent crime be correct?

2012 headlines were full of horrible depressing news: cuts on the federal, state, county and the city level. The nation was subjected to a full time diet of descriptions …

The IFC responds to a recent critique written by the staff at ProPublica.

A federal judge has ruled that New York City police are not allowed to routinely stop pedestrians outside of private residential buildings in the Bronx.

I am writing to you to fill in the silence of the sheep. The sheep I refer to here are the mass media, printed or electronic, and local elected …

Venezuela has postponed yesterdayu2019s presidential inauguration as Hugo Chu00e1vez remains hospitalized in Cuba.

Since 1999, over 300,000 young Jews from around the world have embarked on the free, 10-day tour of Israel known as Taglit-Birthright. Itu2019s considered the most effective means of …

Something is happening in Michigan. After a failed attempt in the 2012 election to make collective bargaining a right under Michigan's constitution, Republicans fast-tracked a “right-to-work” law enabling employees …

Check on virtually any mainstream news source and you can view the Dow's numbers on open trading, the Dow's high, its low, and the Volume of trading, just to …

Here are some statistics on the status of Haiti three years after the horrific earthquake that killed thousands.