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Crime & Illegality


Let the Blood Moon Shine

Gus Breslauer

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Review of When the Moon Turns to Blood by Leah Sottile Twelve Books, 2022, $15.99 – 320 pages Over a decade ago, I came across a fascinating story about whom Vice News had dubbed the โ€œMormon ...

“Hard Times”

Curtis Price

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Itโ€™s the expressions. Some stare vacantly with that deer-in-the-headlights look, some glower defiantly, others hold the steady downwards gaze of the already-defeated and always-defeated, the type of people who look like they could use a small ...

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An 82-year-old man slipped past doormen in upscale buildings for years and stole $400K in jewelry

Noel Ignatiev

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Editors’ note: In July we posted a blog about the growing number of older nomadย workers who use theirย vehicles to find ways to surviveย in these grim times (https://hardcrackers.com/growing-old-post-recession-america/).ย  We’re now re-posting an article from CNN on a ...

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“Shit-Life Syndrome” (Oxycontin Blues)

Curtis Price

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The drug crisis is hard to ignore in the South – and not just in the rural areas. People keel over waiting for buses or lie slouched and zoned out in cars, as if some zombie-inducing ...