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

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

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

An exclusive look at a groundbreaking policy transformation. There are lessons for the left to learn here.

In the struggle for criminal justice reform, police are playing the victim.

On the growing appeal of socialism in an age of inequality

How twelve young activists forced a bold idea into the mainstream of the Democratic Party

A new generation of activists, disappointed by the mainstream Jewish response to bigotry, has come to the fore.

A new poll shows the party's base is losing patience. Women at the Congressional Black Caucus' annual conference explain why.

Police are suppressing the rights of protesters—and that's just the way Trump wants it.