State prosecutors argued, and a jury agreed, that George Floyd’s death was outside the boundaries of good policing. But the truth was more ambiguous, and tellingly so.

The eerily similar deaths of George Floyd and Victoria Salazar demonstrate how our own abusive police practices have been shipped abroad in the name of “deterring” migration.

While police in Minneapolis assault reporters, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is endorsing violence against demonstrators. It’s time for journalists to put up a fight.

Daunte Wright was dead. Minnesota police raised a “thin blue line” flag, claiming their deadly force with a mark of pride.

On the role of criticism in the end times

If George Floyd was somehow culpable in his own death, the defense seemed to argue, then so were the bystanders.

Convicting a police officer of murder or creating more oversight won’t stop the killing

The Harper’s publisher’s latest column, about a controversy at The New York Times, goes out of its way to use an ugly racial slur.

From “Everybody Hates Bill” to “Go Home Jacob,” it’s been a rough year for the faces of local power.

“Defund the police” is not an austerity measure. It’s a demand that we put police department budgets to better use.

After four years of corruption and venality, can the country’s law enforcement agency be saved?

During a summer of uprising and mutual aid, Nadine Little moved from park underpasses to hotels and back again. She’s not alone.

Can cop associations’ dirty tactics survive a new era of protest?

Ohio has a reputation for moderation. But moderation in the Trump era has an entirely different meaning.

The Black vote may have cost Democrats the election here in 2016. This year is poised to be different.

How the president has used William Barr and other officials to turn the government into his personal fiefdom

Black films have championed Black lives for over 100 years—while white America studiously ignored them.

How mass protests against racist police brutality sparked a historic federal crackdown on dissent

Why Black officers have to be at the forefront of efforts to transform America’s racist police culture.

Jacob Blake was critically injured when cops shot him in the back on Sunday. Six years ago, a new law was supposed to bring change.