Legalizing Cocaine Is the Only Way to End the Drug War
A Panamanian National Aeronaval Service officer guards 12 tons of cocaine divided into hundreds of packages bound for the United...
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At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Sandra never knew what happened to the child she had at 17. Growing up in a respected, church-going, middle-class family...
Episode Seven: Dirty Information
In 2004, New York narcotics officers raided Alberta Spruill’s home, shattering her door and detonating a flash grenade. Spruill, a...
War in Venezuela, Brought to You By the Same People Who Lied Us Into Iraq
Supporters of President Nicolás Maduro participate in a march to swear in the Bolivarian Grassroots Committees in Caracas, Venezuela, on...
Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People
The Trump administration is promising legal cover for military personnel who carry out lethal attacks on the alleged drug smugglers...
Episode Six: Airborne Imperialism
Veronica and Charity Bowers, a young Christian missionary and her daughter, are killed when the Peruvian Air Force shoots down...
The President Is Perfectly Fine If You Starve
Donald Trump speaks during an event about drug prices on Nov. 6, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White...
Episode Five: What Fourth Amendment?
In June 2010, Las Vegas police conducted a no-knock raid on Trevon Cole’s apartment, where he lived with his nine-months-pregnant...
Local Cops Aren’t Allowed to Help ICE. Did the Feds Dupe Them Into Raids That Rounded Up Immigrants?
For the first half of the summer, the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement field office in Medford, Oregon, remained relatively...
Trump’s Yemen Strike Killed 61 Immigrants and No Combatants
The U.S. military attacked an immigrant detention center in Yemen earlier this year, killing and injuring dozens of Ethiopian civilians,...
The Struggle for the Future of the New York Democratic Party
New York City is on the cusp of an election in which what once looked impossible has begun to seem...
Episode Three: Blown Cover
When LeBron Gaither was 17, he got into an altercation with a staff member at his school that resulted in...
Episode Two: A Death in the Dark
In January 2008, Ryan Frederick, a 28-year-old who worked the night shift at a Coca-Cola plant in Chesapeake, Virginia, found...
License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions
The United States has executed 21 people over the last month in targeted drone strikes off the coast of Venezuela....
Black People Knew This Would Happen
The Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2025. Photo: Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images Before...
