Florida

Shaking with Fear

From a verbal report given by Harold Howard to Kurt Castaldo, a deputy in the sheriff’s office in Palm Beach County, Florida, in December 2015. Howard alleged that Yousef Muslet…

Miami

By Edwidge Danticat,

On May 13, 2017, I was standing on the back of a pickup truck and addressing a couple hundred or so protesters gathered in front of the Miami field office…

Emerald Sea

By Robert P. Baird,

The making and unmaking of a half-billion-dollar treasure hunt

From an incident report written by a deputy in the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office, in Okeechobee, Florida. The office occasionally responds to requests from parents seeking oversight from law enforcement…

Tort Fishing in America

From the November 2014 Supreme Court oral argument in Yates v. United States. In 2007, a Florida Fish and Wildlife officer found seventy-two undersize red grouper on John L. Yates’s…

Beeper World

By Karen Russell,

The jellyfish life cycle, we were taught in school, involves a sessile state and a period of radiant flight. As polyps, jellyfish are rooted to the seafloor by fleshy stalks.…

Our Common Trouble

By Scott Korb,

In search of justice and forgiveness in Florida

The Lost Yearling

By Lauren Groff,

An American classic fades away

Out on a Limb

By Colin McGinn,

From a June 2013 blog post by Colin McGinn, a philosophy professor at the University of Miami who resigned last December after he was accused of failing to disclose a…

Mopey Dick

By Harper’s Staff,

Shaking with Fear

Miami

Emerald Sea

Shark, Florida

Swat Team

Tort Fishing in America

Beeper World

Our Common Trouble

The Lost Yearling

Out on a Limb

Mopey Dick

Florida

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Shaking with Fear

Miami

Emerald Sea

Shark, Florida

Swat Team

Tort Fishing in America

Beeper World

Our Common Trouble

The Lost Yearling

Out on a Limb

Mopey Dick

April 2012