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Police Violence
August 31, 2020
Redditt Hudson
The Hell of Being a Black Cop
Why Black officers have to be at the forefront of efforts to transform America’s racist police culture.
August 29, 2020
G’Ra Asim
The NBA Strike and the Limits of the Left’s Class-Centric Politics
The millionaire players’ anti-racist protest shows how race and class are intertwined for Black Americans.
August 28, 2020
Matt Ford
The Violent Delights of the Trumpian Right
In the end, it was always going to be about blood and soil and gun-toting vigilantes.
August 26, 2020
Nick Martin
The Bucks Aren’t Boycotting. They’re Striking.
The players were done with the league’s empty spectacle of “solidarity.”
August 13, 2020
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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Fear of a Black Uprising
Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing
July 30, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
All Police Can Be Secret Police
Local democratic officials denounce the feds when they act with impunity, but their own police departments use many of the same tactics.
July 21, 2020
Stuart Schrader
Trump Has Brought America’s Dirty Wars Home
The authoritarian tactics we’ve exported around the world in the name of national security are now being deployed in Portland.
July 9, 2020
Audrey Clare Farley
When Cops Kill White People, Black Lives Still Matter
The roots of modern policing are steeped in a white supremacy from which none are immune.
June 27, 2020
Matt Ford
America Has a Secret Police Problem
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.
June 18, 2020
Michael Brenes
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Tim Keogh
Lessons From the Long Movement to Defund the Military
What “Defund the Police” can learn from the six-decade effort to radically demilitarize U.S. foreign policy
June 17, 2020
Libby Watson
The Police Can’t Shake Their Persecution Complex
How much longer will the cops be allowed to tell flamboyant lies about their oppression at the hands of service-sector workers?
June 17, 2020
Libby Watson
The Solution to Police Murder Is Not More Money
Democratic politicians have patiently listened to protesters’ demands and have resolutely vowed to do the opposite.
June 17, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Political Power of Protests
How does direct action shape policy?
June 13, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Democratic Veepstakes in a Time of Protest
The mass movement seeking justice for George Floyd may not have shifted Biden’s running-mate calculus, but it’s added plenty of complications.
June 11, 2020
Nick Martin
Now Do Lincoln
Protesters are tearing down statues of Columbus and other villains of history. The true test will come when they reckon with their heroes.
June 11, 2020
Jasper Craven
The Police’s “Sheepdog” Problem
Twenty percent of cops are military veterans—and some are fighting to rid policing of fear-based training and a testosterone-fueled culture.
June 11, 2020
David Roth
Twilight of the Cop Consensus
Critics say defunding the police is controversial. But continuing to pay for the status quo is crazy.
June 10, 2020
Zoë Hu
A Fragile Answer to the Question of “Whose Streets?”
The experience of our cities has been radically transformed by protest. Which visions of the future do these moments impart?
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.
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