In the end, it was always going to be about blood and soil and gun-toting vigilantes.

The players were done with the league’s empty spectacle of “solidarity.”

Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing

Local democratic officials denounce the feds when they act with impunity, but their own police departments use many of the same tactics.

The authoritarian tactics we’ve exported around the world in the name of national security are now being deployed in Portland.

The roots of modern policing are steeped in a white supremacy from which none are immune.

There’s a lot you don’t know about what the cops on your streets are doing—and they aim to keep it that way.

What “Defund the Police” can learn from the six-decade effort to radically demilitarize U.S. foreign policy

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 mass movement seeking justice for George Floyd may not have shifted Biden’s running-mate calculus, but it’s added plenty of complications.

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.

Twenty percent of cops are military veterans—and some are fighting to rid policing of fear-based training and a testosterone-fueled culture.

The experience of our cities has been radically transformed by protest. Which visions of the future do these moments impart?

Cops and media elites have long enforced a demand for peaceful protest, without any regard for what those words mean.

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

On peaceful protest, “outside agitators,” and the radical agency of the oppressed

On Pittsburgh, the canonization of Mario Lemieux, and stories white progressives like to tell