As Grants Pass, Oregon—and the nation—await a Supreme Court ruling on just how far cities can police the homeless, a volunteer mayor and her unhoused constituents try to weather the backlash.

Politicians and lawmakers are equating large-scale fentanyl seizures with progress in combating the drug’s epidemic, forgetting the lessons from the age of crack.

Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

A new effort to investigate the crisis of missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women and girls also has to confront the role of law enforcement.

Federal drug policy needs a major overhaul, but Rahul Gupta has a record of making harmful compromises.

Police around the country have claimed to overdose on fentanyl merely from handling the drug. What’s really going on?

We are still living in the world that Walsh, and “America’s Most Wanted,” helped build: a paranoid populace that believes crime is everywhere and can only be solved through relentless policing.

The crime-reporting app has big plans: live broadcasts, for-hire private security details, and a growing user base of freaked-out customers. It’s building a paranoid, profitable future.

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.

Rosa Brooks wanted to fix law enforcement. She decided to become a police officer.

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

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.

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

The mainstreaming of “sex work is work” and strong decriminalization policy proposals are signs of the movement’s success. What comes next?

Republican senators culpable in the violence looked elsewhere, as did the police, for explanations of what went wrong on January 6.

As law enforcement agencies search their ranks for extremists, deeper questions have emerged about the racist, conspiratorial thinking embedded in those institutions.

Organizers and thinkers on where we are in the major fights of our moment—from prison abolition to climate justice and the housing crisis—and where we go next.

We are facing a series of contradictions, expressed in big and small ways. Learn the wrong lessons, and we’re doomed.

During a summer of uprising and mutual aid, Nadine Little moved from park underpasses to hotels and back again. She’s not alone.