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George Floyd
June 12, 2020
Nadine Little
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Nick Martin
I Helped Turn an Empty Hotel Into a Shelter. Then the Owner Evicted Us.
“We were shut out of our rooms ... I really don’t know what’s next.”
June 11, 2020
Adam Weinstein
America’s Top General Isn’t That Sorry
Mark Milley apologized for his photo op with Trump, but not for the violence he visited on American protesters.
June 11, 2020
Nick Martin
Now Do Lincoln
Protesters are tearing down statues of Columbus and other villains of history. The true test will come when they reckon with their heroes.
June 11, 2020
David Roth
Twilight of the Cop Consensus
Critics say defunding the police is controversial. But continuing to pay for the status quo is crazy.
June 10, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Disappearing Backlash to Black Lives Matter
Americans are slowly, but surely, growing tired of broad societal injustices—and less susceptible to the right’s mechanisms of racial resentment.
June 10, 2020
Zoë Hu
A Fragile Answer to the Question of “Whose Streets?”
The experience of our cities has been radically transformed by protest. Which visions of the future do these moments impart?
June 10, 2020
John Patrick Leary
Freeing Protest From the Language Police
Cops and media elites have long enforced a demand for peaceful protest, without any regard for what those words mean.
June 9, 2020
Nick Martin
The NFL Is for Cops
A weak statement about past wrongs is a joke and an insult to the movement against police violence and former players like Colin Kaepernick.
June 9, 2020
Matt Ford
The Glaring Hole in the Democrats’ Police Reform Bill
The proposed legislation does little to reform the federal law enforcement agencies that have flooded the capital in recent weeks.
June 9, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Rush to Redefine “Defund the Police”
An abolitionist demand rose to mainstream prominence. Now every politician and cable news talking head is suddenly an expert.
June 9, 2020
Andrew J. Bacevich
Will 2020 Finally Kill America’s War Fetish?
The U.S. has historically chosen war to address all kinds of problems: terror, drugs, unfriendly countries. This time is different.
June 8, 2020
Rebecca Pierce
The Limits and Dangers of a Fixation on “Nonviolence”
On peaceful protest, “outside agitators,” and the radical agency of the oppressed
June 7, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Tom Cotton and the Elite Media’s Dalliance With Illiberalism
How the elimination of constitutional rights became an irresistible argument in the world of mainstream ideas.
June 5, 2020
Alex Shephard
Rethinking the Press’s Relationship With Police
For too long, media outlets have treated cops with credulity and protesters with skepticism. That’s all changing.
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
June 4, 2020
Libby Watson
At
The New York Times,
an Uprising Over James Bennet’s Incompetence
The paper’s staff is in an incandescent rage over the decision to publish an op-ed calling for the violent disruption of First Amendment rights.
June 4, 2020
J.C. Hallman
Minneapolis in the Aftermath
Scenes from the city in the wake of last week’s unrest
June 4, 2020
Linda Tirado
Police Blinded Me in One Eye. I Can Still See Why My Country’s on Fire.
“All anyone wants to talk about is freedom of the press, if I am angry, what I will do next. I am angry—but no more than I was this time last week.”
June 4, 2020
Matt Farwell
The Militarization of the American Hometown
As police everywhere roll through neighborhoods with battlefield hardware, an Afghanistan vet’s family learns there’s no escaping war.
June 3, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
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Katie McDonough
Protest Medics on Being Targeted by the Police, in Their Own Words
“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.”
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