Thomas Lake

Nearly a dozen protesters were forcibly removed from a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas the night before the final Republican primary debate of the year, and Trump’s supporters yelled at the demonstrators as they were taken out of the room.

Did one police shooting help raise the nationwide homicide rate? Observers disagree. But three years later, Ferguson and metro St. Louis are still paying a terrible price.

Two decades later, a traffic stop on a country road is still teaching police officers about deadly force – and the cost of hesitation.

The officers of the Buffalo Police Department went more than four years and 2 million calls without a fatal shooting. What did they do right?

Thomas Lake writes that the shutdowns and closures caused by the coronavirus pandemic are marring our days with sorrow, but we must not forget to be grateful.

Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolors. But on a cold day in the prison yard, he carried a knife and thought about revenge.

Thomas Lake writes on what he remembers about life before we were all conditioned to avoid people and what life now looks like for him and his family during the Covid-19 pandemic. During a recent trip to the park with his four kids, a young boy asked if he could join Lake and his four children in a…

In the latest essay for The Distance series, Thomas Lake shares a coronavirus scare he had after helping a stranded stranger one night in September.

Thomas Lake, in his latest essay for “The Distance” series, writes about a father who lost his wife to cancer and the balance of experiencing days that are diamonds and others that are stones, as the old country-rock song put it, while he looks to the future.

My little Spider-Man, his mother called him. Ayden King was 2 years old, and it seemed he had superpowers. He could pour his own milk, though he did spill a little, and he could pull up a chair and open a high cabinet to find a snack. One time he climbed over the metal railing on the balcony of their second-floor apartment. He was holding on out there, in the open space, until his mother pulled her little Spider-Man back onto the balcony. In a recent conversation with CNN, Chepial Williams rem…