The first time I gave any thought to the term was when I watched some of the great old film noir movies about gangsters. It seemed like almost every gang was victimized by one. I am referring here to ...

The Stool Pigeon has a long and storied history with Irish pubs. When he was a young lad, the fledgling bar columnist spent some time abroad becoming acquainted with the minimum-drinking-age laws of ...

Many individuals erroneously interpret the above term from the Joe Valachi testimony about the Mafia in the Kefauver congressional hearings in the 1950s. Other famous “snitches,” traitors, informers, ...

The snitch, that much-maligned, usually marginalized staple figure of crime fiction, receives sympathetic centerstage treatment in compelling Hong Kong-set police meller “The Stool Pigeon.” Latest ...

One of the best political documentaries last year, “Better This World” examines the government’s crackdowns on civil disobedience, the ubiquity of surveillance and the injustice of our justice system.