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About seventy thousand people died from drug overdoses last year, marking a fourteen percent drop and the third straight annual decline. That sounds like progress until you realize we are simply returning to the grim baseline of 2019, and the…

Thirty-three percent. That was the jump in homicides across major American cities during a single year when the pandemic shut down everything but fear. Experts warned early on that trauma without an outlet would spill over into violence, and they…

Seventy percent of Americans encountered a scam last year, yet the most devastating financial heists still happen behind polished glass office doors. Capital One recently filed a lawsuit to stop operators who misuse its trademark, but that corporate legal team…

At three twenty in the morning last March, six construction men went to work fixing a pothole and never came home. A container ship drifted without power, slammed into a concrete pillar, and dropped a quarter mile of steel into…

Over a thousand airport security screeners walked off the job this winter after missing their second paycheck. Travelers faced endless lines at checkpoints while politicians in Washington traded blame over a funding lapse that dragged on for forty-four days. The…