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Steven Cohen

Steven Cohen is a former reporter-researcher at the New Republic. He is currently a master’s student at NYU’s Institute of Journalism and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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December 20, 2015
Steven Cohen
Why can’t Democrats speak out against the Ferguson Effect?
December 20, 2015
Steven Cohen
The Democrats have not been debating drugs, but that will likely change tonight.
December 18, 2015
Steven Cohen
We kill people, Russia kills people, and that’s just “the way it is”: Donald Trump explains why it’s really all just relative.
December 15, 2015
Steven Cohen
Colombia is one step away from ending the oldest armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere.
December 14, 2015
Steven Cohen
What does it take to get a police brutality conviction in Chicago?
December 10, 2015
Steven Cohen
New York is safer now that the police don’t harass people of color (as much).
December 10, 2015
Steven Cohen
Why Ted Cruz Is Happy Hiding in Donald Trump’s Shadow
The Texas senator's own politics of racial division seem somewhat palatable by comparison.
December 9, 2015
Steven Cohen
Rahm Emanuel has reached the public apology stage of the Laquan McDonald controversy.
December 7, 2015
Steven Cohen
The Justice Department is launching a civil rights probe into the Chicago police department. Finally.
December 2, 2015
Steven Cohen
The Next Fight for Racial Justice: Police Union Reform
Deep in the weeds of union contract agreements lie provisions that protect cops from oversight.
December 2, 2015
Steven Cohen
For years, white supremacists in the Dothan, Alabama, police department allegedly planted drugs and guns on black people.
December 1, 2015
Steven Cohen
Commemorate World AIDS Day with this rediscovered recording of Ronald Reagan's press secretary cracking gay jokes in the '80s.
December 1, 2015
Steven Cohen
Garry McCarthy is out as police superintendent as the covering of asses continues in Chicago.
November 25, 2015
Steven Cohen
Welcome to the "future of war," where even the proxies have proxies.
November 25, 2015
Steven Cohen
Hillary Clinton doesn't apologize for calling undocumented immigrants "illegal" but promises not to do it again.
November 24, 2015
Alex Shephard, Steven Cohen
Messi's back.
November 24, 2015
Steven Cohen
The police officer who shot Laquan McDonald 16 times has been charged with first-degree murder.
November 23, 2015
Steven Cohen
The Mexican government knew exactly what Chapo Guzmán was doing in prison, right up until he tunneled his way out.
November 21, 2015
Steven Cohen
Barcelona FC probably just got Rafa Benitez fired.
November 19, 2015
Steven Cohen
We need a wall immediately ... to keep Mexican immigrants from leaving.

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