“The cops at the protest that day wouldn’t make eye contact. They were laughing at one point. I think they think this is funny.”

For many of his mainstream critics, Trump is forever on the verge of finally going too far.

Over the past week, cops have shown that they share a coherent ideology.

Law enforcement agencies have become the standing armies that the Founders feared.

Trump is sending an unambiguous message to a country in turmoil—and his armed supporters, from cops to vigilantes, hear it loud and clear.

Like the president, New York City’s mayor has shrunk from sight amid anti-police protests.

If our ex-presidents couldn’t solve America’s problems while they were in office, what good are they in this current crisis?

Mainstream press coverage of state violence tends to frame it as if it happened by magic.

The protests across the country are about more than police violence.

There can be no healing in America without an honest reckoning with racial injustice—but we have long known that.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, and the president has bunkered down.

Abolishing police unions should be part of the broader fight to defund, demilitarize, and ultimately dismantle the U.S. police force.

The coronavirus has slowed much American police work, but the rate of police killings has remained relatively unchanged.