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May 30, 2022
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Anthony Conwright
The Myth of “Radical” Black Politics That Stymies Progressive Politics
Black Americans largely want the same things that white people do. So why are their demands treated as extreme?
July 6, 2020
Isabel Cristo
Policing Doesn’t Protect Women
As abolitionist frameworks enter the mainstream, addressing gendered and sexual violence is treated like a conceptual trap. It’s not.
June 5, 2020
Casey Taylor
Nihilism and White Bliss in America’s Most Livable City
On Pittsburgh, the canonization of Mario Lemieux, and stories white progressives like to tell
May 28, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Pandemic Is the Right Time to Defund the Police
The coronavirus has slowed much American police work, but the rate of police killings has remained relatively unchanged.
May 16, 2020
Zoé Samudzi
White Witness and the Contemporary Lynching
The belief that passive viewership can translate into structural justice is an idea as misguided as it is old.
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