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June 3, 2020
Nick Martin
The Brands Don’t Care About George Floyd’s Death
Corporations that speak out about racial injustice are not brave. They’re manipulative.
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.”
June 3, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Are You Really Surprised by Our Authoritarian President?
For many of his mainstream critics, Trump is forever on the verge of finally going too far.
June 3, 2020
Alex Pareene
The Police Take the Side of White Vigilantes
Over the past week, cops have shown that they share a coherent ideology.
June 3, 2020
Vanessa A. Bee
A Quiet Workplace Revolution in the Shadow of Silicon Valley
How a luxury doggy daycare became an unlikely model of the future of work
June 2, 2020
Matt Ford
The Police Were a Mistake
Law enforcement agencies have become the standing armies that the Founders feared.
June 2, 2020
Adam Weinstein
This Is Fascism
Trump is sending an unambiguous message to a country in turmoil—and his armed supporters, from cops to vigilantes, hear it loud and clear.
June 2, 2020
Alex Shephard
Bill de Blasio Has Failed
Like the president, New York City’s mayor has shrunk from sight amid anti-police protests.
June 1, 2020
Libby Watson
The Political Elites’ Pointless Calls for More Leadership
If our ex-presidents couldn’t solve America’s problems while they were in office, what good are they in this current crisis?
June 1, 2020
Nick Martin
Tear Gas Doesn’t Deploy Itself
Mainstream press coverage of state violence tends to frame it as if it happened by magic.
June 1, 2020
Haley Mlotek
Barbara Ehrenreich Still Wants to Be Surprised
“My hope for all readers is that they will shut the book and run out and protest. That’s what I always expect people to do. They seldom do it.”
June 1, 2020
Nick Martin
The Rebirth of Red Power
The tribal sovereignty movement from the late 1960s never really ended. To find the future of the Native left, look to the past.
June 1, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
How the Democrats Should Imitate the Republican Party
Many of the political tactics that put Donald Trump in the White House can be used to kick him out.
June 1, 2020
Chris Moody
Living in Your Car as a Pandemic Consumes Your City
A “safe parking lot” in San Diego is a haven and a holding pattern during the coronavirus lockdown and an ongoing housing crisis.
May 31, 2020
Ryu Spaeth
America’s Social Contract Is Broken
The protests across the country are about more than police violence.
May 31, 2020
Walter Shapiro
The Flawed Politics of a Law-and-Order Campaign
Richard Nixon tried to play on white fears about cities burning. It doesn’t necessarily guarantee success.
May 30, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Deep Amnesia of Our National Conscience
There can be no healing in America without an honest reckoning with racial injustice—but we have long known that.
May 29, 2020
Alex Shephard
Mark Zuckerberg Comes to Trump’s Defense
Casting himself as a free speech warrior, the Facebook CEO reveals his company’s increasingly rightward bent.
May 29, 2020
Matt Ford
Trump’s One Constant Is a Fetish for Bloodshed
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, and the president has bunkered down.
May 29, 2020
Nick Martin
The Racist Gatekeepers of American Land
From segregated lakes to Christian Cooper, white supremacy has long dictated access and safety in public green space and nature.
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