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Heavily armed SWAT teams are increasingly used for such small tasks as raiding poker games and trying to stop underage drinking. How did we get here?   Excerpted from "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces...

Each year, I keep a running list of exceptional nonfiction that I encounter as I publish The Best of Journalism, an email newsletter that I curate weekly for its subscribers. This is my annual attempt to bring some of those stories to a wider audience...

Visual Arts Highlights Printmaker Romson Bustillo’s “Solo Exhibition” is up from June 28th – Sept. 24th at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. His work is haunted by memories of a childhood in the Philippines and the artist’s travels from S.E. Asia to...

Former Clinton insider claims to have been the couple’s personal Hitman. Watch this documentary about his experience with the Clintons: <a href=”http://www.talknetwork.com/middle-1.html”> <img src=”http://www.talknetwork...

Well, George Saunders, First Thursday Art Walk, And More Picks For Feb 27-March 5 by Stranger Things To Do Staff Here are our arts critics' picks in every genre—from Spectrum Dance Theatre's Rambunctious #3: The Immigrants to Genre Bender, and from...