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Snitching

The flag of Ukraine on a pole | Denys Bozduhan | Dreamstime.com

Snitching

Brickbat: Big Neighbor Is Watching

Charles Oliver | 12.6.2023 4:00 AM

A smartphone against a yellow background, next to a pile of marijuana buds, with a marijuana bud on the phone's screen. | Kyrylo Vasyliev | Dreamstime.com

Surveillance

New Senate Bill Would Turn Online Services Into Narcs

An expanded surveillance state can’t solve problems created by drug prohibition.

J.D. Tuccille | 5.3.2023 7:00 AM

zumaamericasthirtytwo274676 | Bob Daemmrich/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Abortion

GoDaddy Shuts Down Web Hosting for Pro-Life Organization's Abortion Whistleblowing Site

Pro-lifers and pro-choicers have one thing in common: a passion for snitching

Liz Wolfe | 9.9.2021 4:30 PM

altopress065036(1) | Anne-Sophie Bost/A. Bost / Altopress/Newscom

Coronavirus

The Pandemic Brings Out Americans' Inner Snitches

Setting the cops on social-distancing scofflaws is dangerous to public health and a free society.

J.D. Tuccille | 4.15.2020 10:50 AM

James Dailey | Florida Department of Corrections

Death Penalty

A Group of Prosecutors Want SCOTUS To Save Death Row Inmate James Dailey

Former prosecutor Bennett Gershman: "The use of jailhouse informants...is one of the great abuses in criminal trials across America."

Zuri Davis | 2.5.2020 12:30 PM

Large image on homepages | Chanel/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Social Media

The #ThotAudit Is Deeply, Painfully Stupid

The snitch crusade is ostensibly about making sure hot women aren't making money off their hotness without giving the government a cut.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.26.2018 4:30 PM

Large image on homepages | Brian Enright / Dreamstime.com

Snitching

A Summer-of-Snitches Subversion: City Helps Teen Rather Than Shut Down Unlicensed Hot Dog Stand

When he grows up and gets that food truck, though, he'll probably have a very different experience.

Scott Shackford | 7.25.2018 12:40 PM

Large image for longform feature pages. | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; coloring: Livia Moynihan

DARE

Recognize, Resist, Report

America's long history of teaching kids to identify with the police

Joshua Reeves | 4.16.2017 6:00 AM

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