Adding Insult to Wrongful Incarceration Massachusetts limits compensation for victims of wrongful convictions to $1 million. Advocates want to change that—but some lawmakers are seeking a compromise that would put more people behind bars.
Paid-members only You who have already been burned Murder being so much quicker and easier than medicine
It makes a sound like a snake when it falls Every day for the past year I have spent my waking hours in an aghast sort of stupor. Thinking: no one is arriving to stop this? Surprised anew. Still no one? Not even after this? Or this? Or this? And then I resign myself to that grim fact and wake
Paid-members only Soil to bury our dead I was on the treadmill when all of the TVs at Planet Fitness switched to coverage of Iran's strike on Israel. I'd never seen them do that kind of thing before. Even the ones that usually show commercials for Planet Fitness while you're at
Paid-members only If Gaza is the new Vietnam then this is just the start Similarities exist between 2024 and 1968, but our current moment is more akin to Vietnam pre-1965 — before the US really got involved.
Paid-members only The voices of children can be heard from under the rubble The eventual truth We were going to have to put Jodie Foster down. Out of her misery they said. Send her up to the very same farm my parents conjured for me the last time this scenario played out when I was a child. She hadn’t been hungry much
Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Quest to Defend Pop Punk People are discovering Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a big pop punk and emo head again this week after he tweeted out his playlist so I thought it would be fun to go back and read this interview I did with him for Noisey back in 2018. https://t.co/znGNao6gQt
Paid-members only Your death will serve as its own justification Here's a new poem. It appears in my book We Had It Coming out very soon. This is my blood I marvel at the design of our weapons. So sophisticated they can transform any man woman or child they pummel into a terrorist. Writing in their flight between
Half the Story Massachusetts passed historic police certification reform. But even with the POST Commission, the public can’t see which cops have been part of the “officer shuffle.”
Paid-members only We live in danger times Down below we have a lovely career-spanning essay on the music of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and a review of their latest album Woodland. You'll need to be a paid subscriber to read it. You can also go directly to it here. Thank you for supporting
Paid-members only Nothing more than a racist land grab "A guy you used to hang out with and liked but weren't close to and haven't talked to in years and then is dead out of nowhere on Facebook" is one of those things I haven't gotten used to despite it happening
