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July 6, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
Woodrow Wilson Was Even More Racist Than You Thought
Princeton University could have disassociated itself from the former president a long time ago.
June 30, 2020
Alex Shephard
Uighur Lives Matter
Corporations are bending to popular will over racism and police violence in the U.S. But do they care about China’s ethnic cleansing of Muslims?
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 25, 2020
Laura Weiss
How America Exports Police Violence Around the World
Confronting the militarized response to protests in the United States requires a reckoning with our foreign policy.
June 21, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
This Is How Trump Plans to Beat Biden
In his latest campaign kickoff rally, the president maps his desperate plan to overcome the national crisis he enabled and win reelection.
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 15, 2020
Libby Watson
Trump’s Antifa Derangement Syndrome
The curious case of how a 75-year-old Buffalo man became the leader of a dangerous leftist organization that doesn’t actually exist.
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 12, 2020
Parker Richards
The Fall and Rise of the Guillotine
Ideologues of left and right have learned to stop worrying and love rhetorical violence.
June 11, 2020
Adam Weinstein
America’s Top General Isn’t That Sorry
Mark Milley apologized for his photo op with Trump, but not for the violence he visited on American protesters.
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 11, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Reactionary Unions Don’t Just Back Police. They Also Back Fossil Fuels.
The left-leaning labor movement is home to a few highly intransigent anti-reform groups. How should labor respond?
June 10, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Disappearing Backlash to Black Lives Matter
Americans are slowly, but surely, growing tired of broad societal injustices—and less susceptible to the right’s mechanisms of racial resentment.
June 10, 2020
J.C. Pan
Small Acts of Care in a Failed State
What community solidarity in the wake of police violence and a devastated economy say about government malice
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.
June 8, 2020
Libby Watson
No Slogan Is Safe From Politicians
Mitt Romney tweeted that “Black Lives Matter.” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser painted it on the street. But will they fight for true reform? (Probably not.)
June 5, 2020
Alex Shephard
Rethinking the Press’s Relationship With Police
For too long, media outlets have treated cops with credulity and protesters with skepticism. That’s all changing.
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