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Breaking: DA demands DNA from Chris Duncan and Haley Oliveaux's mother

Louisiana continues to persecute a wrongly convicted man
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The framing of Chris Duncan: Part Two

"God doesn't let innocent babies die for no reason. Somebody has to be punished."
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Roundup: Chris Duncan, reader response to suing Stephen Miller, our ongoing immigration nightmare

Links, reader mail, and a NBC interviews me for a report on a wrongful conviction in Louisiana
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Suing Stephen Miller

It's time to put everyone from Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to the most recent ICE hire on notice: a reckoning is coming
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A guide to racism in the criminal justice system

A repository of studies, surveys, and reports on the disparate ways white, Black, and Latino people are treated by police, prosecutors, courts, and prisons
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The unremitting fire

Our 250-year struggle is real, difficult, and as necessary as ever
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How The Free Press spun Trump's cruelty toward migrants as a heroic campaign to "save" kids

As Bari Weiss guts CBS News -- and sets her sights on CNN -- the publication she founded continues to sanitize this administration's worst abuses
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How Bari Weiss's Free Press laundered MAGA talking points about refugees

As Weiss rebuilds CBS News and 60 Minutes in her own image, her flagship publication continues to whitewash some of Trump's cruelest policies
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You can't hide your lying ICE: The covered-up killing of Ruben Ray Martinez

It took nearly a year for the public to learn that a DHS officer killed a Latino man and U.S. citizen -- and that federal officers lied about how it happened.
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Truth, power, and honest journalism

Garry Tan, the CEO of venture capital firm Y Combinator, accused me of unethical reporting. This is my response.
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A conversation with Dawn Deaner, a public defender running for judge

The longtime Nashville public defender discusses what she's learned from 20 years in the trenches, what needs to change, and what she would do on the bench
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Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit?

An experiment with AI underscores the perils of police deception and the Reid technique
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Immigration questions for Markwayne Mullin

Trump's nominee to replace Kristi Noem faces the Senate today. Here's what they should ask him.
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Questions for Markwayne Mullin

What we need to hear -- but probably won't -- from Trump's nominee to replace Kristi Noem
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The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation

The Democrats demanded that Trump's immigration cops follow the law and the Constitution. The Republicans called those demands "nonstarters."
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The Roundup: Too much ICE

The government is cracking down. The people are standing up.
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