The “Bundy Sniper” photos were stark and disorienting, like wartime images from a Third World hot zone, not a blocked-off interstate highway one hour from Las Vegas. In one of the photos, a lariat-thin white man in a heavy beard and tactical jacket lies belly flat on the concrete, his […]
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Ex-DEA Official Blames Congress, but His Own Agency Blessed Opioid Boom
The Washington Post and 60 Minutes released an explosive report detailing how Congress hobbled the Drug Enforcement Administration’s ability to take down prescription opioid distributors. The exposé stars Joe Rannazzisi, who ran the DEA’s Office of Diversion Control from 2006 to 2015. Both news organizations celebrated Rannazzisi’s supposedly tough stance […]
Read MoreHEROIN(E): An Interview with filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Elaine McMillion Sheldon is driving south on I-79 through West Virginia, chasing a new story. She’s behind the wheel of a packed-to-the-roof Subaru Outback, with her dog Keeley in the passenger seat and her husband, Kerrin Sheldon, trailing her in a small U-Haul truck. The documentary filmmakers are wrapping up […]
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