DHS denounces victims of immigration enforcement shootings before facts known

This week, and for the fourth time this year, Department of Homeland Security law enforcement officers fatally shot someone on a U.S. street. The initial narrative from the agency checked a familiar box. The officers acted defensively, said DHS – though other federal agencies withheld comment as investigations commenced. Over the past six months, witnesses … Read more

Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, then you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants upon which nearly everyone could agree. Maybe you read parts of it from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM for that social studies … Read more