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Defund the Police
August 29, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump Botches IVF Policy Roll Out With Extremely Weird Speech
Donald Trump spent an entire speech purportedly about the economy jumping between random topics.
May 24, 2024
Michelle Phelps
The Minneapolis Police Department Is Dismantling Itself
Since George Floyd’s murder in 2020, the MPD has shrunk by a third. Organizers should take credit.
May 29, 2023
Magazine
Dana Liebelson
Greg Casar Charts a Lonely Progressive Path in Texas
How far can he go in a state that Democrats don’t win?
May 5, 2023
Michael Tomasky
Remember “Defund the Police”? Well, Guess Who’s Actually Proposing Doing It.
The House Republican’s debt ceiling bill has several nasty surprises for anyone who “backs the blue.”
February 3, 2023
Anthony Conwright
Videos of Police Brutality Against Black People Are a Futile Spectacle
The ritual of repeated “reckonings” hasn’t changed abuses by cops.
September 23, 2022
Magazine
Emily Cooke
Defund Social Workers
They’re often just cops by another name.
August 5, 2022
Maya Wiley
100,000 New Cops? There Are Far Better Ways to Fight Crime.
Crime is real. Democrats should work to fight it. But caving in to fearmongering from the right isn’t the way to do it.
May 30, 2022
Magazine
Anthony Conwright
The Myth of “Radical” Black Politics That Stymies Progressive Politics
Black Americans largely want the same things that white people do. So why are their demands treated as extreme?
February 18, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Democrats Are Doomed, and Somehow It’s All the Squad’s Fault?
What Axios’s Mike Allen gets wrong about the recent San Francisco election and the Democrats’ “overall image”
June 30, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
The Damning Truth Behind Cop “Walkout” Stories
The New York Times and other news media are laundering an exaggerated narrative about besieged officers—one that’s meant to threaten anyone who questions police power.
May 27, 2021
Stuart Schrader
The Lies Cops Tell and the Lies We Tell About Cops
The deception isn’t just a matter of language. It’s baked into the institution.
May 26, 2021
Matt Ford
Can the Politics of Police Reform Survive the Crime Rates of Our Pandemic Year?
An impenetrable web of statistics is being used to deflect criticisms and reshape the media narrative around policing.
March 26, 2021
Matt Ford
The Obscure Supreme Court Case That Could Radically Redefine Police Powers
What began as a minor domestic dispute is now a legal time bomb that could grant cops expanded search and seizure rights.
March 9, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
A Trial Can’t Bring Justice for George Floyd
Convicting a police officer of murder or creating more oversight won’t stop the killing
December 23, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
End the Cops’ Cannibalization of Our Budgets
“Defund the police” is not an austerity measure. It’s a demand that we put police department budgets to better use.
December 15, 2020
Shom Mazumder
What Black People Really Think About the Police
Pollsters keep tripping over contradictions in how communities of color talk about cops.
November 9, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Democrats Will Suffer if They Abandon the Green New Deal
Establishment politicians are claiming that progressives cost the party seats. But reverting to the status quo could cost it much more in 2022.
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