A simple eight-character password can be cracked in only 37 seconds using brute force but it takes over a century to crack a 16-character one. Updating your password to be longer and contain a mix of ...

One of the most confounding legacies of the crack epidemic is that everyone has heard of crack — we all think we know what we need to know — but few of us actually understand it. That’s not an ...

My community was in the middle of an invisible war. When people disappear from the neighborhood, I learned, it was because they’d been killed or locked up. Or even worse, they were “on that shit,” ...

On Sept. 5, 1989, President George H.W. Bush appeared on live television to discuss what he called the nation's "gravest domestic threat." Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of ...

In “When Crack Was King,” Donovan X. Ramsey offers a fresh history of the epidemic that gripped minority communities, inflamed media coverage and led to draconian drug laws. A man selling crack on ...

Whether you give much thought to it or not, hair grows all over your body. Body hair is completely normal, even on your buttocks and between your butt cheeks. This type of hair is called vellus hair, ...

U.S. Attorney General-designate Merrick Garland said at his confirmation hearing last week that he supports eliminating the disparity between federal prison sentences for crack and powder ...

Veteran documentarian Stanley Nelson crafts a somewhat cursory primer on the 1980s crack epidemic. By Devika Girish When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...

Stanley Nelson's big-picture documentary takes the measure of crack as a destroyer, but does it with a social awareness that was missing at the time. In the 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through ...

NBA 2K12 has become, quite possibly, the best basketball game of the past decade. I don't want to call it the best of all time yet, because, quite frankly, it's going to take a lot for any game to top ...