Over at Slate, Tyler Lopez ponders the question of how the LGBT community should handle his death: Some have suggested picketing Phelps’ funeral, much as his
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Dear Ben Carson, When I get mad, I tell myself I shouldn’t post on the blog. I should take a walk, hum a little
Among the Italian Supreme Court’s reasons for overturning Amanda Knox’s acquittal was their belief that her statement to the police, in which she placed herself
Kathryn Schulz’s Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, which I’ll probably praise to the skies once I’m through with it, pointed me to a
I’ve been going on a bit lately about the Knox case and the mistakes that led to her and her former boyfriend’s becoming unwilling cast
In 2011, Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor responsible for making a pig’s breakfast of the Monster of Florence case and damaging, possibly beyond repair, the futures
Update (3/26/2015): Amanda Knox and Raffele Sollecito were acquitted today by the Italian Court of Cassation. So ends their legal nightmare. I wish them both the best
Being in prison during the holidays would be rough for anyone–especially in those prisons that seem to go out of their way to make inmates’
Yet another Amanda Knox trial is almost over. I feel no urge to recapitulate what I think are compelling arguments for her innocence. It was