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Arrest Climate-Change Deniers

Adam Weinstein · 03/28/14 01:53PM

Man-made climate change happens. Man-made climate change kills a lot of people. It's going to kill a lot more. We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people's deaths. It's time to punish the climate-change liars.

Michelle Dean · 03/26/14 03:15PM

Rep. Jackie Speier has announced that she's going to introduce a bill criminalizing "revenge porn" into the House of Representatives next month. If and when she does, it will be the first effort to enact a federal law against revenge porn, or as others put it, "non-consensual pornography."

Hamilton Nolan · 03/24/14 03:35PM

Five former aides to Bernie Madoff have been convicted of participating in his $17.5 billion Ponzi scheme. In their defense, he was a great boss.

Justin Charity · 03/23/14 04:39PM

Shootouts all across Chicago last night left at least ten people injured, according to city authorities. Police opened fire on one fleeing gunman, 19-year-old Junior Adziwonou, as officers chased him on foot through Englewood on the South Side.

Court Rules That Encouraging Suicide Is Legal

Hamilton Nolan · 03/20/14 10:07AM

William Melchert-Dinkel (pictured), a former nurse in Minnesota, served a year in prison for encouraging two people (who did commit suicide) to commit suicide. Yesterday, the state supreme court said that what he did was not a crime.

Hamilton Nolan · 03/19/14 05:16PM

Somehow it is possible to be caught for insider trading even if you chewed up and ate the Post-It Notes that you wrote down your illegal stock tips on. That's some CSI shit, man!