Summer comes early in Texas. And May in the high desert around the West Texas town of Redford can be scorching. It was there, on a hot day in 1997, that four ghillie-suit-clad Marines shot and killed eighteen-year-old Esequiel Hernández Jr…
By Brian Platt
On May 1st, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best announced a series of emphasis patrols aimed at “an attempt to reduce crime and fear of crime” in select Seattle neighborhoods…
By Brian Platt
Seattle is Dying begins with footage captured by a drone as it rises above a homeless encampment on the south side of the city, eventually revealing the shimmering towers of Seattle’s urban core. This, the third documentary on homelessness…
By Brian Platt
I am writing under considerable torment and mental strain, for I know that before this night is over, I will likely be dead. Penniless, I can bear the torture no longer. I have tried to drown myself in alcohol and the fat clouds of my…
By Professor Ambrose J. Hoag
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