Category: Features
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Plaintiffs Attys in Limbo, With Jury Trials ‘Impossible’ in NY
Two years into the pandemic, Justice Doris Gonzalez made a phone call from her chambers in the Bronx County Supreme Court to an attorney who had a case pending — and again reached a nonworking number. As the administrative judge for a borough of 1.4 million people, Justice Gonzalez says she has worked throughout the COVID-19 shutdown, showing…
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For Some Conservatives, the Death Penalty is Another Big-Government Failure
Heather Beaudoin is a Michigan native who has spent the last decade working with conservative and evangelical communities to repeal state death penalty laws. She is now the National Director of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (CCATDP), a project of the Brooklyn-based organization Equal Justice USA, which grew out of her work with the Montana Abolition…
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Sex Workers Decry ‘Moral Panic’ Over Human Trafficking
At the height of national outrage over what government officials and activists call a human trafficking epidemic, sex workers are challenging what they say are misleading and harmful efforts to link prostitution to sex trafficking. “People have used this moral panic, this idea that there is a trafficking epidemic, to create so much funding and…
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Rise of the Young Programmers
Since the 1980s, Cuba has been producing skilled programmers who ultimately seek opportunities with leading companies overseas. Now, some of Cuba’s young entrepreneurs are choosing to stay and develop onshore startups. Will economic reforms and a government-controlled internet keep pace with the rising global demand for tech talent?
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The Smell of Success
The Cuba Mountain Coffee company looks to new foreign markets—including the U.S.— as it moves forward with a deal to revive production in Eastern Cuba.
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Fraud and the Elderly: Is Anyone Paying Attention?
Paul Greenwood, San Diego’s Deputy District Attorney, has been investigating crimes against the elderly for over two decades. As head of San Diego’s Elder Abuse Unit, he’s been a front-row witness to the tragedies such crimes have left in their wake. “I have seen for myself many instances where victims in their seventies, eighties, nineties,…