February 2, 2017 (Fault Lines) — It seems like a good idea in theory: an Uber-like service for women that connects female riders and drivers. Safr (previously called Chariot for Women), announced its March launch in...

January 19, 2017 (Fault Lines) — The death of a mentally-ill young man at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail has forced Virginia lawmakers to reckon with the state’s dismal mental health treatment in the criminal justice...

December 15, 2016 (Fault Lines) — 2016 saw public bathrooms become a major battleground in the culture wars. Earlier this year, North Carolina grabbed national headlines when it passed the “Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act,” which required...

December 8, 2016 (Fault Lines) —  Nicole Bolden got into a car accident back in March of 2014 in Foristell, Missouri. Someone made an illegal U-turn in front of her car, and despite the 32-year-old African-American...

November 17, 2016 (Fault Lines) — On Wednesday morning, a group of 30 abortion rights activists, health professionals and women strongly urged Texas state officials to reconsider the consequences of implementing House Bill 201, a proposal...

November 3, 2016 (Fault Lines) — On October 17, 2016, Maria Daly reported she had been robbed. She told police that intruders broke into her Millbury, Massachusetts, home in the middle of the night and stole...

October 20, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Jackson County Circuit Court Judge John McBain has “no regrets” about getting physical with an unruly defendant last December, after a surveillance video of the incident went viral on Wednesday....

October 13, 2016 (Fault Lines) — A resident of Flint, Michigan—a city still reeling from the lead-contamination crisis earlier this year—filed a complaint on Tuesday calling for a grand jury investigation into whether Gov. Rick Snyder...

October 6, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Last week, the Chicago Reader published an investigation into the Chicago Police Department’s civil asset forfeiture fund and its findings aren’t pretty. The Institute for Justice, a Libertarian nonprofit public-interest law...

September 22, 2016 (Fault Lines) — A dispute between a Las Vegas judge and a deputy public defender boiled over on Tuesday when the attorney refused to remove a Black Lives Matter lapel pin from her...