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The Real Crime

An illustration of Breonna Taylor, with white roses crowning her and a label "JUSTICE".

Attack ads and contemporary political rhetoric about crime have a disturbing campaign ancestor: The Willie Horton ad that may have cost Michael Dukakis the presidential election in 1988. It relied on racism for its efficacy, and it ushered in an era of so-called “tough-on-crime” laws and posturing that nearly broke criminal legal systems, like the…

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Land Management in New Mexico

Two people stand with each other in a desert rocky area.

October 2, 2020 – William Perry Pendley, deputy director for policy and programs at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, visited New Mexico in September. On that trip, he traveled around the state and visited Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a hotspot for the agency, which is developing two million acres of oil and gas…

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