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George Floyd
August 24, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
When “Police Reform” Came to Kenosha, Wisconsin
Jacob Blake was critically injured when cops shot him in the back on Sunday. Six years ago, a new law was supposed to bring change.
August 19, 2020
R.E. Hawley
The Lazy Liberalism of Instagram Slideshows
A boom in “instagraphics” indulges the desire to project social-justice values rather than act on them.
August 14, 2020
Magazine
Jabari Asim
The Douglass Republic
How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader
August 13, 2020
Magazine
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Fear of a Black Uprising
Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing
August 11, 2020
Apoorva Tadepalli
A Radical Movement to Take Back Our Cities
Protest encampments across the country are forcing questions about housing, public space, and who our neighborhoods are really for.
August 6, 2020
Magazine
Kate Wagner
The Secret History of America’s Worthless Confederate Monuments
They’re cheap, mass produced, and celebrate the Jim Crow South. So why do conservatives persist in calling them art?
July 31, 2020
Magazine
Jake Bittle
The Right’s Increasingly Unhinged Fight Against Black Lives Matter
As the movement’s popularity surges, the conservative media insists that it is hell-bent on destroying the American way of life.
July 24, 2020
Matt Ford
Trump’s Greatest Liability Is His Own Incumbency
The president’s latest reelection strategy is to darkly warn voters about the chaos he created.
July 2, 2020
Jack Shuler
Can the White People of Small-Town America Get Behind the Movement for Black Lives?
The George Floyd protests have spread to the heavily white areas of rural Ohio. Only time will tell whether the alliance will last.
June 27, 2020
Matt Ford
America Has a Secret Police Problem
There’s a lot you don’t know about what the cops on your streets are doing—and they aim to keep it that way.
June 25, 2020
Laura Weiss
How America Exports Police Violence Around the World
Confronting the militarized response to protests in the United States requires a reckoning with our foreign policy.
June 24, 2020
Jo Livingstone
A Dream of Lasting Solidarity at the Dyke March
Marching this year was a reminder that the mainstream LGBT movement still needs to cement its commitment to anti-racism.
June 21, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
This Is How Trump Plans to Beat Biden
In his latest campaign kickoff rally, the president maps his desperate plan to overcome the national crisis he enabled and win reelection.
June 17, 2020
Libby Watson
The Police Can’t Shake Their Persecution Complex
How much longer will the cops be allowed to tell flamboyant lies about their oppression at the hands of service-sector workers?
June 17, 2020
Alex Pareene
Abolish These Police Departments
Minneapolis’s police force has forfeited its right to exist. So have other cities’.
June 17, 2020
Libby Watson
The Solution to Police Murder Is Not More Money
Democratic politicians have patiently listened to protesters’ demands and have resolutely vowed to do the opposite.
June 17, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Political Power of Protests
How does direct action shape policy?
June 15, 2020
Gaby Del Valle
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Jack Herrera
The Pandemic-Era Rebrand of Family Separation
Mothers in immigrant detention said they were asked to separate from their children. ICE claimed it was an “option.”
June 15, 2020
Libby Watson
Trump’s Antifa Derangement Syndrome
The curious case of how a 75-year-old Buffalo man became the leader of a dangerous leftist organization that doesn’t actually exist.
June 15, 2020
Giulia L. Heyward
The Righteous Power of the George Floyd Mural
The proliferation of murals across the country is part of a tradition dating back to the civil rights movement.
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