Month: January 2013

I only really started thinking about community policing strategies after I started watching the HBO program The Wire. That show attempted to show the difficulty of policing a large urban area with lots of gang and drug activity....

The last quarter saw a 22% reduction in defense spending, which is the largest quarterly drop since 1972, during the wind-down of the Vietnam War. That, combined with mayhem caused by Superstorm Sandy, caused the economy to...

I suppose that Lawrence O’Donnell will be disappointed, and I admit that I, too, liked the idea of Barney Frank as a senator. But Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick chose to appoint his former legal counsel and chief of...

. John Cornyn of Texas was one of three senators voting against nomination of John Kerry. His backers heven’t given up hope to block the nomination of Chuck Hagel, all in the interest of friend Israel. [Senate roll-call]...

The Senate Judiciary Committee is having a hearing today on gun violence and what to do about it. Guess who’s coming to the microphone. If you guessed Wayne LaPierre of the NRA and Mark Kelly, former astronaut and husband...