On the role of criticism in the end times

Pollsters keep tripping over contradictions in how communities of color talk about cops.

Can the prodigal son keep the party going?

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

Ohio has a reputation for moderation. But moderation in the Trump era has an entirely different meaning.

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

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

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

The millionaire players’ anti-racist protest shows how race and class are intertwined for Black Americans.

A boom in “instagraphics” indulges the desire to project social-justice values rather than act on them.

Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing

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

The George Floyd protests have spread to the heavily white areas of rural Ohio. Only time will tell whether the alliance will last.

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

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

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

How does direct action shape policy?

The proliferation of murals across the country is part of a tradition dating back to the civil rights movement.

“We were shut out of our rooms ... I really don’t know what’s next.”

The left-leaning labor movement is home to a few highly intransigent anti-reform groups. How should labor respond?