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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...

Sunday 18th December 6.30pm Sports Personality Of the Year 2016 BBC1 -  Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan host the 2016 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Now in its 63rd year, the show recognises the standout achievers and relives the must...

Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Dennis Harvey, Lynn Rapoport, and Sara Maria Vizcarrondo. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock. CAAMFEST The Center for Asian American Media Fest runs March 14-24. Venues include...

Hawa Allan Bulwarks against the tidal wave of horror . . . #SelfCare Poem: “In Service of Staying Alive“, by Lynne Procop. Novel: That would be Deep Singh Blue, by Ranbir Singh Sidhu — a coming-of-age novel about a Sikh-American teen growing up in...

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...