FROM MICHAEL LACEY Jim Larkin’s passing has torn at my heart. I knew him for over 40 years as we pursued stories across America, literally from sea to shining sea. He began a newspaper in high school; journalism was quite…
Forget smoking guns. In an appellate brief filed recently at the Ninth Circuit, defense attorneys in the Lacey/Larkin case offer a series of flaming bazookas, detailing the prosecution’s unabashed intent to force the defense to move for a mistrial (and…
Meghan McCain seldom misses an opportunity to remind everyone who her father was, and when the co-host of ABC’s The View saw a chance to buff the family image during the January 15 episode of the popular daytime TV talk show, she…
The battle over free speech raged in courtrooms, on college campuses, and on social media in 2018, with wedding cakes for same-sex couples and the federal government’s attack on sex workers taking center stage. In no particular order, are the…
Cornell University senior protests professor’s comments about her short-shorts by stripping to her undies during thesis presentation on Facebook Live Elderly male professor faces discipline for “ladies lingerie department” crack in elevator at academic conferece Detroit hip-hop station yanks Kanye…
UPDATE 4/9/18, 2:43 PM: The indictment has just become available, and you can read it here. Along with Lacey and Larkin, other erstwhile Backpage execs are indicted. CEO Carl Ferrer’s name is not among the indicted, though a “C.F.” is…
U.S. Sen. John McCain received thousands of dollars in contributions from executives at the Silicon Valley healthcare-technology company Theranos. In a symbiotic relationship reminiscent of his involvement in the Keating Five scandal of the late 1980s, the Arizona Republican played…
Proving the pundits wrong, former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio formally announced on Tuesday that he is running for the U. S. Senate, making good on his recent comment to a reporter that he was “seriously considering” entering the contest…
If you listened only to Sen. John McCain and his wife Cindy during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs earlier this fall, you might conclude that American Indian reservations are overrun by human trafficking, and that the…
