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Investigations &
Legal Affairs

The Marshall Project

‘Deliberate indifference’ has undermined lawsuits over jail deaths across the country
New York Focus

When conviction integrity units exonerate the innocent, prosecutors escape blame
New York Focus

DAs promised to help the wrongfully convicted. Instead, they made things worse.
Gothamist

A judge said Queens prosecutors hid evidence. A secret committee cleared them anyway.
Gothamist

New York finally has a way to discipline prosecutors. So why hasn’t it?
Gothamist

NY prosecutor who hid evidence is eyeing a return to law. Professors want him disbarred.
Gothamist

Advocates urge Hochul, Mamdani to deny ‘vindictive’ Bronx judge more time on bench
- 49 aging NY judges want more time on the bench. Reformers are worried about 4.
- As Mamdani begins appointing judges, study finds former cops, prosecutors set higher bail
New York Focus

Court records undercut DA’s testimony on discovery rollbacks
Gothamist

A Supreme Court fight just might start with a few vacant NYC apartments

Jails & Detention

Politics & Policy

Narratives & Profiles

San Francisco Chronicle

How the pandemic divided the California county where 1 in 300 people died of COVID
San Francisco Chronicle

Finding himself: A transgender child and his parents sort through a new reality
- Research on transgender children still in its infancy
Gothamist

How a deadly freeze laid bare the limits of NYC’s efforts to help its most vulnerable
Gothamist

How New Yorkers teach a generation removed to ‘Never Forget’ 9/11
San Francisco Chronicle

What we’ll lose at the water’s edge — on sea-level rise in the Bay Area
San Francisco Chronicle

She was a leading lesbian activist before disappearing into the Northern California woods
San Francisco Chronicle

Feminist force: Rebecca Solnit revisits her formative past in new memoir
San Francisco Chronicle

In new collection, Marin poet Kay Ryan contemplates nuances of loss

Public Health &
the Pandemic

San Francisco Chronicle

Monica Gandhi is S.F.’s outlier COVID expert. Her view: ‘I’m not saying anything crazy’
San Francisco Chronicle

After 12 months of coronavirus, the Bay Area reflects on a year of loss, and a lost year
San Francisco Chronicle

‘A long short life’: Family, friends believe S.F. man was ‘indirect victim’ of pandemic
San Francisco Chronicle

Essential and ignored: Working in a pandemic
- Portraits of those risking their life to keep a nation in crisis working
San Francisco Chronicle

Coronavirus has changed the very act of dying and saying goodbye
San Francisco Chronicle

Love in the time of coronavirus: How San Franciscans cope
San Francisco Chronicle

How SF’s battle with HIV/AIDS shaped today’s coronavirus response
San Francisco Chronicle

How GoFundMe became an imperfect social safety net for thousands of Americans
- A new study shows it couldn’t help everyone

Community & Culture

Gothamist

Why the internet fell for a Chinatown passport photographer
Gothamist

Mayor Mamdani has a favorite phrase. We counted him saying it 80 times.
San Francisco Chronicle

The Ohlone are building a new homeland in the East Bay, 1 half-acre at a time
- Indigenous women lead effort to reclaim ancestral lands
San Francisco Chronicle

Emeryville’s poet laureate recasts a small city in verse
San Francisco Chronicle

Last call for San Francisco’s last lesbian bar
San Francisco Chronicle

The riot that predated Stonewall, 50 years later
San Francisco Chronicle

How two friends’ lives became ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’
San Francisco Chronicle

Galería de la Raza, a birthplace of Chicano art, finds respite from exile
San Francisco Chronicle

‘We have many challenges in the Tenderloin and a rooster is now one of them’
San Francisco Chronicle

‘Another nail in the coffin of gay SF’: Nob Hill Theatre closed after 50 years