Tag: Missouri
‘Stand your ground’ laws empower armed citizens to defend property with...
Caroline Light, Harvard University
In one key respect, Ralph Yarl was fortunate. The wounds the 16-year-old suffered after being...
Librarians could be jailed and fined under a proposed censorship law
Nicole Cooke, University of South Carolina
A bill pending in Missouri’s legislature takes aim at libraries and librarians who are making “age-inappropriate sexual material” available...
College-educated cops enforce the law more aggressively
Richard Wright, Georgia State University; Richard Rosenfeld, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Thaddeus L. Johnson, Georgia State University
In the wake of controversial and widely...
Missouri’s dark money scandal, explained
Ciara C Torres-Spelliscy, Stetson University
Eric Greitens has resigned, finally. The former Missouri governor’s sex scandal didn’t force him to step down, but rather...