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In Southern California, in the early nineteen-nineties, hip-hop was mutating in heavy and thrilling ways. When the Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg, then known as Snoop Doggy Dogg, released “Doggystyle,” his major-label début, in 1993, he was plainly positioned to…
Here are some of the things that you will not find if you go looking for traces of the Soviet Gulags: memorials at every known execution site, museums on the ruins of camps, accurate documentation of what happened to the…
Earlier this March, cyber-security firm Kaspersky Labs released information on a newly discovered, highly advanced piece of malware dubbed Slingshot. The malware targeted Latvian-made Internet routers popular in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Kaspersky’s reports reveal that the malware had…
If you hear members of Congress tell it, this is really the moment that federal lawmakers are taking the opioid epidemic seriously. Over the next two days, the House is holding hearings on more than 20 bills to confront the…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions just sent out a memo asking federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty in drug trafficking cases — implementing President Donald Trump’s plan from earlier this week to ramp up “tough on crime” punishments in response…
In the 1970s, the United States government began a unique practice of “shutting down,” or suspending most non-emergency government functions, when Congress fails to pass a spending bill to keep things running. Since then, there have been 20 shutdowns (two…
