Dara Lind
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Dara Lind
The crack epidemic led to a violent black market. But the data for its effects on crime is unclear.
Mental health treatment may help reduce crime and violence, but the research is lacking.
Alcohol really is linked to crime.
Gentrification may bring down crime, but we need more research.
We’ll know by July whether Obama violated the Constitution in 2014, when he tried to protect millions of immigrants from deportation.
Guess who did?
Marriage fight in the Anglican Church; it’s looking like a 2-man GOP race; and Walmart is doing something it almost never does.
What does the Constitution mean by “natural-born citizen,” anyway?
Cruz did the unthinkable: He made Trump back down.
Seven killed in a multistage terror attack in Indonesia; another flipping Republican debate; #OscarsStillSoWhite.