Alaska

In Anchorage, Alaska, there are 5 hours, 27 minutes of daylight on December 21. The good news: The numbers only go up for the next six months. The bad news: December 22 has merely seconds more light.

I wondered what the difference in treatment would be between a white man accused of assaulting an Alaska Native woman and that same Alaska Native woman accused of nonviolent criminal mischief.

The Alaskan town of Tanana has a riffraff-be-gone policy. Is banishment the best choice to beat crime in super-rural communities?

The earth’s magnetic poles can provide quite a light show in the 49th state.