The administration is using the tools of the state to influence—even poison—how America’s racial history will be taught in our public forums and schools.

Blame Hollywood’s “unwokening” and the extraordinary rise of right-wing podcasters on slop: intellectually bereft, emotionally sterile content that’s shaped by data and optimized for clicks.

As critics focus on Trump’s attacks on the media, his administration is preparing a larger assault on the First Amendment.

The high court’s decision to leave a controversial lower court decision intact does not necessarily spell doom for First Amendment rights.

An anonymous cop believes civil rights organizer DeRay Mckesson is liable for injuries suffered in a 2016 Black Lives Matter demonstration—but at least one conservative judge isn’t buying it.

The far-reaching RICO indictment against Stop Cop City organizers in Atlanta is just the latest example of prosecutors’ central role in chilling dissent.

The way to a stronger democracy starts with reforming our massive criminal justice system.

In Ryan Lee Wong’s novel, a young activist gets caught up in his own idealism.

Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus agree that the ban is a great move. So why is Al Sharpton taking the side of R.J. Reynolds?

Hate crimes of all kinds, and against all kinds of people, are still far too prevalent in American society. And they are massively underreported.

Kshama Sawant brought an uncommon passion to a successful stint on the City Council. It may now be her undoing.

As Kyle Rittenhouse walks free, Black people sit in prison for resisting the deadly conditions of their lives.

Both trials involve armed white men who deputized themselves to kill, but the disparate response to the two cases is deeply revealing.

By shedding the detritus of race-based nationalism, today’s insurgents have harnessed the power of white innocence.

From The New York Times to Instagram, a recent genre of self-help writing wants you to think the last 16 months were really just an opportunity to become your best self.

The Biden administration is investigating the Minneapolis Police Department, but history shows that the government’s power to rein in cop culture is limited.

Across the country, right-wing Catholic clerics are weaponizing their rites to own the libs.

The last decade’s cycle of uprisings and protests has demonstrated more than a confrontation with white supremacy; it has been the most explosive articulation of a crisis in Black politics.

Our inability to truly conspire is why so many people are struggling today.

How Republicans across the country came to endorse a terrorist tactic against protesters