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June 10, 2020
J.C. Pan
Small Acts of Care in a Failed State
What community solidarity in the wake of police violence and a devastated economy say about government malice
June 10, 2020
John Patrick Leary
Freeing Protest From the Language Police
Cops and media elites have long enforced a demand for peaceful protest, without any regard for what those words mean.
June 9, 2020
Matt Ford
The Glaring Hole in the Democrats’ Police Reform Bill
The proposed legislation does little to reform the federal law enforcement agencies that have flooded the capital in recent weeks.
June 8, 2020
Libby Watson
No Slogan Is Safe From Politicians
Mitt Romney tweeted that “Black Lives Matter.” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser painted it on the street. But will they fight for true reform? (Probably not.)
June 5, 2020
Alex Shephard
Rethinking the Press’s Relationship With Police
For too long, media outlets have treated cops with credulity and protesters with skepticism. That’s all changing.
June 5, 2020
J.C. Pan
After Defunding the Police, Nationalize Their Benefits
Police unions have secured some of the most robust benefit packages in the country. Why shouldn’t everyone have that?
June 4, 2020
Libby Watson
At
The New York Times,
an Uprising Over James Bennet’s Incompetence
The paper’s staff is in an incandescent rage over the decision to publish an op-ed calling for the violent disruption of First Amendment rights.
June 4, 2020
Linda Tirado
Police Blinded Me in One Eye. I Can Still See Why My Country’s on Fire.
“All anyone wants to talk about is freedom of the press, if I am angry, what I will do next. I am angry—but no more than I was this time last week.”
June 4, 2020
Matt Farwell
The Militarization of the American Hometown
As police everywhere roll through neighborhoods with battlefield hardware, an Afghanistan vet’s family learns there’s no escaping war.
June 3, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Are You Really Surprised by Our Authoritarian President?
For many of his mainstream critics, Trump is forever on the verge of finally going too far.
June 3, 2020
Alex Pareene
The Police Take the Side of White Vigilantes
Over the past week, cops have shown that they share a coherent ideology.
June 2, 2020
Matt Ford
The Police Were a Mistake
Law enforcement agencies have become the standing armies that the Founders feared.
June 2, 2020
Adam Weinstein
This Is Fascism
Trump is sending an unambiguous message to a country in turmoil—and his armed supporters, from cops to vigilantes, hear it loud and clear.
June 2, 2020
Alex Shephard
Bill de Blasio Has Failed
Like the president, New York City’s mayor has shrunk from sight amid anti-police protests.
June 1, 2020
Libby Watson
The Political Elites’ Pointless Calls for More Leadership
If our ex-presidents couldn’t solve America’s problems while they were in office, what good are they in this current crisis?
May 31, 2020
Walter Shapiro
The Flawed Politics of a Law-and-Order Campaign
Richard Nixon tried to play on white fears about cities burning. It doesn’t necessarily guarantee success.
May 30, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Deep Amnesia of Our National Conscience
There can be no healing in America without an honest reckoning with racial injustice—but we have long known that.
May 18, 2020
Libby Watson
The Deranged Civic Religion of the Lockdown Protesters
Furious at being denied their fast food and manicures, the “reopen America” rebels have invented a slew of new constitutional rights.
May 5, 2020
Nick Martin
The All-Consuming White Pandemic Protester
As white armed protesters flood state capitols to be marveled at by the media and left alone by police, workers of color are fighting for their survival.
April 9, 2020
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