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.

Confronting the militarized response to protests in the United States requires a reckoning with our foreign policy.

Police have adopted the same fundamental societal outlook as gun rights advocates: Arms are synonymous with law and order.

In his latest campaign kickoff rally, the president maps his desperate plan to overcome the national crisis he enabled and win reelection.

What “Defund the Police” can learn from the six-decade effort to radically demilitarize U.S. foreign policy

How much longer will the cops be allowed to tell flamboyant lies about their oppression at the hands of service-sector workers?

Minneapolis’s police force has forfeited its right to exist. So have other cities’.

Democratic politicians have patiently listened to protesters’ demands and have resolutely vowed to do the opposite.

How does direct action shape policy?

Mothers in immigrant detention said they were asked to separate from their children. ICE claimed it was an “option.”

The mass movement seeking justice for George Floyd may not have shifted Biden’s running-mate calculus, but it’s added plenty of complications.

Twenty percent of cops are military veterans—and some are fighting to rid policing of fear-based training and a testosterone-fueled culture.

Critics say defunding the police is controversial. But continuing to pay for the status quo is crazy.

The experience of our cities has been radically transformed by protest. Which visions of the future do these moments impart?

Cops and media elites have long enforced a demand for peaceful protest, without any regard for what those words mean.

The proposed legislation does little to reform the federal law enforcement agencies that have flooded the capital in recent weeks.