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June 25, 2020
Laura Weiss
How America Exports Police Violence Around the World
Confronting the militarized response to protests in the United States requires a reckoning with our foreign policy.
June 24, 2020
Firmin DeBrabander
America’s Cop Problem Is Also a Gun Problem
Police have adopted the same fundamental societal outlook as gun rights advocates: Arms are synonymous with law and order.
June 21, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
This Is How Trump Plans to Beat Biden
In his latest campaign kickoff rally, the president maps his desperate plan to overcome the national crisis he enabled and win reelection.
June 18, 2020
Michael Brenes
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Tim Keogh
Lessons From the Long Movement to Defund the Military
What “Defund the Police” can learn from the six-decade effort to radically demilitarize U.S. foreign policy
June 17, 2020
Libby Watson
The Police Can’t Shake Their Persecution Complex
How much longer will the cops be allowed to tell flamboyant lies about their oppression at the hands of service-sector workers?
June 17, 2020
Alex Pareene
Abolish These Police Departments
Minneapolis’s police force has forfeited its right to exist. So have other cities’.
June 17, 2020
Libby Watson
The Solution to Police Murder Is Not More Money
Democratic politicians have patiently listened to protesters’ demands and have resolutely vowed to do the opposite.
June 17, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Political Power of Protests
How does direct action shape policy?
June 15, 2020
Gaby Del Valle
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Jack Herrera
The Pandemic-Era Rebrand of Family Separation
Mothers in immigrant detention said they were asked to separate from their children. ICE claimed it was an “option.”
June 13, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Democratic Veepstakes in a Time of Protest
The mass movement seeking justice for George Floyd may not have shifted Biden’s running-mate calculus, but it’s added plenty of complications.
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 11, 2020
Jasper Craven
The Police’s “Sheepdog” Problem
Twenty percent of cops are military veterans—and some are fighting to rid policing of fear-based training and a testosterone-fueled culture.
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
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 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 5, 2020
J.C. Pan
After Defunding the Police, Nationalize Their Benefits
Police unions have secured some of the most robust benefit packages in the country. Why shouldn’t everyone have that?
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
Kate Aronoff
Defunding the Police Is Good Climate Policy
Budgets are about to get tight. States and cities should direct money to programs that truly make communities more secure.
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