Last week, Lamel Diggs, a 32-year-old inmate in a Mississippi prison, sent Splinter an email through CorrLinks, the…
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Molly Osberg is a writer on the East Coast who reports on crime, class, and the U.S. healthcare system. Her work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing collection.
On October 27 of last year, Jackie Fielder, 23, was living in the Bay Area, working her first job out of college and…
A study published on Monday presents alarming new evidence about something that has, so far, been anecdotally…
The two-story brick plantation house in Georgia is an unlikely “monument to the culture” of the Cherokee tribe, but…
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His name is Charlie, and he might be a racist.
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If you were writing a movie about the United States’ second Civil War, there would be a few stumbles you’d be…
Kam Franklin is a musician based in Houston. We spoke to her from the van she and her friends were using to help…
The fiction that there’s a war on the police has brought us to a truly bizarre place. Cops claim “blue racism,” and…
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Soul Searching is our series about how the most secular generation in history is changing the face of religion.
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A few years ago, William Bratton, former commissioner of the NYPD and the man responsible for exporting “broken…
Pastor Harry Reeder is a busy man, and one who has managed to combine his two passions—the word of God and the Civil…
In 2012, the 81-year-old nun Megan Rice—along with co-conspirators Gregory Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli—put every…
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