All summer, police gave far-right demonstrators a long leash while cracking down on left-leaning protesters. Why would this week be any different?

Election officials have to reckon with the reality that the police may be a threat to free and fair elections.

To build community support, organizers in L.A. flipped the message—and tactic—from taking money away from cops to locking in funds for everything else. Will it work?

Can cop associations’ dirty tactics survive a new era of protest?

A case out of Wisconsin reveals how fragile—and superficial—coalitions between anti-violence organizations and police really are.

The Badger State is designed to keep Republicans in power, at the expense of the minority vote. Can Joe Biden overcome these structural disadvantages?

The vigilantes running wildfire checkpoints in Oregon are the latest right-wing militants to take advantage of a crisis.

Kooper Caraway, the head of the state’s AFL-CIO, is done with thinking small.

“Spit hoods” are torture, and Daniel Prude is only the latest victim.

How mass protests against racist police brutality sparked a historic federal crackdown on dissent

Why Black officers have to be at the forefront of efforts to transform America’s racist police culture.

Patricia McCloskey and Kimberly Guilfoyle are a new twist on a dangerous lineage of conservative women.

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.

A power struggle over police unions rattles the heart of the American labor movement.

Local democratic officials denounce the feds when they act with impunity, but their own police departments use many of the same tactics.

Unidentified federal agents in Portland detained protesters without cause—a predictable consequence of law enforcement becoming more like the military, and vice versa.

The roots of modern policing are steeped in a white supremacy from which none are immune.

As abolitionist frameworks enter the mainstream, addressing gendered and sexual violence is treated like a conceptual trap. It’s not.

The corrupt and abusive Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is just one of many in America that have evaded oversight.

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.