Tag: FBI
Conviction of two Michigan kidnap plotters highlights danger of violent conspiracies...
Amy Cooter, Middlebury
Two of the six men facing federal charges in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen...
The civil rights activist so close to Martin Luther King Jr....
Jason Miller, North Carolina State University
In a recent article published in Standpoint Magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Luther King Jr. biographer David Garrow details new...
Why meritocracy is a myth in college admissions
Morgan Polikoff, University of Southern California; Jerome A Lucido, University of Southern California, and Julie Renee Posselt, University of Southern California
The most damaging myth...
Many hate crimes never make it into the FBI’s database
Sophie Bjork-James, Vanderbilt University
The FBI’s latest numbers showed a 17 percent increase in reported hate crimes in 2017.
But what does this actually say about...
Informants aren’t spies – they’re essential FBI tools
Douglas M. Charles, Pennsylvania State University
President Donald Trump tweeted this week that he would order the Department of Justice to investigate whether the FBI,...
What Comey learned from theologian Reinhold Niebuhr about ethical leadership
Christopher Beem, Pennsylvania State University
While James Comey’s most recent clashes with President Trump are foremost on everyone’s minds, he’s had quite a career. He...
The deaths of 76 Branch Davidians in April 1993 could have...
Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University New Orleans
Twenty-five years ago, on February 28, 1993, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents attempted to execute a “dynamic...
Now that Russia has apparently hacked America’s grid, shoring up security...
Theodore J. Kury, University of Florida
Hackers taking down the U.S. electricity grid may sound like a plot ripped from a Bruce Willis action movie,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including...
Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota
As energy use rises and the planet warms, you might have dreamed of...
