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Seth Herald / AFP / Getty Not Every Atrocity Is About White Supremacy
Why I am skeptical of the reflex to attribute violence to structural racism
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic The Police Can Be Reformed. These Two Books Lay Out How.
In the aftermath of Tyre Nichols’s killing, it’s easy to despair. But two new books show how police departments can alter their behavior.
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Seth Herald / AFP via Getty How Memphis’s Policing Strategy Went So Wrong
David A. Graham discusses what he saw and heard in the city after video footage was released of Tyre Nichols’s fatal beating by police.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic; Getty How the Supreme Court Protects Police Officers
It’s almost impossible to hold them to account.
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The Atlantic; Ismail Ferdous / Agence VU / … What Makes a Good Cop
“Police should not police themselves.”
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California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation / Getty Alabama Makes Plans to Gas Its Prisoners
After a series of botched executions, the state is choosing a path of technical, rather than moral, innovation.
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Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty A Year of Botched Executions
Elizabeth Bruenig reflects on writing about—and witnessing—capital punishment in America.
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Mauro Pimentel / AFP / Getty Megan Thee Stallion Is the Victim, Not the Defendant
The acclaimed rapper’s sexual history is wrongly under scrutiny.
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Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times / Getty Is the War on Drugs to Blame for the Fentanyl Crisis?
Plus: Mere discovery is overrated.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Trump’s Reckoning With the Rule of Law
His company now has criminal convictions, and his effort to seek political immunity is looking shaky.
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Raleigh News & Observer / Getty; The Atlantic The Reluctant Face of True Crime
Michael Peterson refuses to watch The Staircase.
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Getty; The Atlantic Give People a Right to Claim Their Innocence
What if, instead of trying to find incriminating evidence, law-enforcement officials could be made responsible for trying to exonerate those charged with crimes?
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Itchi New York’s Grand Dame of Dog Poisoning
Juliet Tuttle may have been the most prolific murderer of pets in American history. How did she get away with it?
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Jon Lowenstein / NOOR / Redux The Crime Spike Is No Mystery
By zooming out and looking at the big picture, the question of what causes violence becomes quite answerable.
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Getty; The Atlantic A History of Violence
Why does Alabama keep botching executions?
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Mark Peterson / Redux Caught Between the Electorally Disastrous and the Morally Monstrous
Democrats can’t find a message on crime they believe in.
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Matthew Busch / The New York Times / … Death of a Sinner
A Texas prisoner fought for the right to have his pastor pray over him and lay hands on him during his execution. Now his pastor reflects.
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Lili Holzer-Glier / Redux The Case Against the Death Penalty
Plus: Why do sports matter?
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Photograph by Sean Maung for The Atlantic Depicting Injustice
An interview with Fulton Leroy Washington
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Painting by Fulton Leroy Washington (MR WASH). Source: … This Is Not Justice
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment
