Ann Ming: The Woman Who Turned a Mother’s Grief Into the World’s Slowest-Motion Revenge By the time Ann Ming finally watched her daughter’s killer convicted for a second time—14 years after he’d literally laughed at the verdict—the rest of the planet had already moved on to fresher horrors: two Gulf wars, the birth of social…
Mariska Hargitay: The UN’s Accidental Special Envoy in a Blazer By the time the 78th United Nations General Assembly dragged itself through another September of performative despair, one woman in the delegates’ lounge was being trailed by more interpreters than most member states. Mariska Hargitay—yes, Detective Olivia Benson to anyone who has ever binged Law…
Double Jeopardy: The World’s Favorite Get-Out-of-Jail Card By M. Sardonique, Senior Correspondent for Dave’s Locker The phrase “double jeopardy” sounds like a misguided game show—two rounds of misery for the price of one—but in the legal world it’s the velvet rope that keeps prosecutors from hammering the same defendant until the jury finally stops sleeping….
