Confronting the militarized response to protests in the United States requires a reckoning with our foreign policy.

Marching this year was a reminder that the mainstream LGBT movement still needs to cement its commitment to anti-racism.

The movement has resisted an anthem. Instead, it has redefined protest music.

How much longer will the cops be allowed to tell flamboyant lies about their oppression at the hands of service-sector workers?

Democratic politicians have patiently listened to protesters’ demands and have resolutely vowed to do the opposite.

How does direct action shape policy?

The curious case of how a 75-year-old Buffalo man became the leader of a dangerous leftist organization that doesn’t actually exist.

Protesters are tearing down statues of Columbus and other villains of history. The true test will come when they reckon with their heroes.

Critics say defunding the police is controversial. But continuing to pay for the status quo is crazy.

The grim state of racial economic inequality should sicken our consciences.

The left-leaning labor movement is home to a few highly intransigent anti-reform groups. How should labor respond?

Americans are slowly, but surely, growing tired of broad societal injustices—and less susceptible to the right’s mechanisms of racial resentment.

The proposed legislation does little to reform the federal law enforcement agencies that have flooded the capital in recent weeks.

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.)

“The cops at the protest that day wouldn’t make eye contact. They were laughing at one point. I think they think this is funny.”

There can be no healing in America without an honest reckoning with racial injustice—but we have long known that.

In the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, we see that the violence of the past is the violence of the present.

The belief that passive viewership can translate into structural justice is an idea as misguided as it is old.

The poisonous contradictions of coptalk

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