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The Spike in Shootings During the Pandemic May Outlast the Virus About 505 people were shot in New York City through May 9, the highest year-to-date number in a decade. Three people were shot in Times Square on Saturday, further focusing attention on the rise in gun violence in New York City. Credit...Dakota Santiago for The New York Times May 14, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET A man in Queens was fatally shot in the stomach outside a celebration thrown for his birthday. Another in the Bronx who stopped to check on a stranger’s well-being was struck in the head and torso and died. A 17-year old was ki...

Are Liberal Cities Turning Against Their Progressive Prosecutors? District attorneys in San Francisco and Philadelphia promised to overturn decades of tough-on-crime policies. Now, as violent crime rises, they may be kicked out of office. ILLUSTRATION BY MATT ROTA In 2016, the killing of Laquan McDonald brought reform prosecutor Kim Foxx into office in Chicago. Larry Krasner, a criminal defense attorney who had sued the Philadelphia Police Department 75 times over the course of his career, scored an improbable victory in his run for district attorney the following year. In 2019, Wesley Bell...

* * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Biden Administration “Vaccine Waiver Pledge Tests Biden-World’s Pharma Ties” [David Sirota, Walker Bragman, and Andrew Perez, Daily Poster]. “The granular details of the waiver will be negotiated by a Biden administration populated by individuals with significant pharmace...

Why the Chauvin verdict didn’t feel like justice The current criminal justice system is not equipped to provide real justice after police killings. Share this story Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg/Getty Images Broadly, the reaction to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for George Floyd’s murder was one of relief. “There’s a saying among Black folks,” Veela Ammons, a business consultant and coach based outside Chicago, told me. “It says, ‘It’s not justice, it’s just us.’ And so we thought it was going to be that kind of situation again where ev...

The Social Order In July 2015, President Obama paid a press-saturated visit to a federal penitentiary in Oklahoma. The cell blocks that Obama toured had been evacuated in anticipation of his arrival, but after talking to six carefully prescreened inmates, he drew some conclusions about the path to prison. “These are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made,” the president told the waiting reporters. The New York Times seconded this observation in its front-page coverage of Obama’s prison excursion....