The way to a stronger democracy starts with reforming our massive criminal justice system.

A new law in Arizona requiring people to stand eight feet back from police activity could set a new trend across the country.

Biden’s executive order on policing may apply only to federal agents, but until legislation can be passed, it still matters.

Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus agree that the ban is a great move. So why is Al Sharpton taking the side of R.J. Reynolds?

If Minneapolis had voted yes to reshuffle the place of police in the city, it would have been an uphill battle to enact reform.

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.

The deception isn’t just a matter of language. It’s baked into the institution.

The Biden administration is investigating the Minneapolis Police Department, but history shows that the government’s power to rein in cop culture is limited.

The last decade’s cycle of uprisings and protests has demonstrated more than a confrontation with white supremacy; it has been the most explosive articulation of a crisis in Black politics.

District attorneys in San Francisco and Philadelphia promised to overturn decades of tough-on-crime policies. Now, as violent crime rises, they may be kicked out of office.

Our inability to truly conspire is why so many people are struggling today.

The attorney general has initiated a larger probe of Derek Chauvin’s colleagues, but there’s no quick fix for a broken system.

Tucker Carlson wants his viewers to believe that the convicted killer is the real victim.

State prosecutors argued, and a jury agreed, that George Floyd’s death was outside the boundaries of good policing. But the truth was more ambiguous, and tellingly so.

The eerily similar deaths of George Floyd and Victoria Salazar demonstrate how our own abusive police practices have been shipped abroad in the name of “deterring” migration.

While police in Minneapolis assault reporters, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is endorsing violence against demonstrators. It’s time for journalists to put up a fight.

Daunte Wright was dead. Minnesota police raised a “thin blue line” flag, claiming their deadly force with a mark of pride.

On the role of criticism in the end times

If George Floyd was somehow culpable in his own death, the defense seemed to argue, then so were the bystanders.

Convicting a police officer of murder or creating more oversight won’t stop the killing