Systemic Sadism at the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Systemic Sadism at the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office
As the trial begins today of one officer accused of beating a man to death for the “crime” of driving his own car, a new PBS documentary flips the script on a department lionized b...
Dec 10, 2021 / Tom Gogola
Who Killed Malcolm X? Who Killed Malcolm X?
Thanks to a recent investigation, we now know that two of the men who spent decades in prison for the crime were innocent. But we are no closer to closure over an assassination tha...
Dec 9, 2021 / Tamara Payne
What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift
Fandom has taken on the worst of the corrupted tribalism that has dominated so much of life outside the arena, the ballpark, and the stadium.
Dec 8, 2021 / Robert Lipsyte
The Staggeringly High Price of a Prison Phone Call The Staggeringly High Price of a Prison Phone Call
It’s outrageous that a billion-dollar industry exists based on skimming profits from some of society’s most vulnerable people.
Nov 30, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
How I Fight Racism in the World and Within Me How I Fight Racism in the World and Within Me
After George Floyd was killed, I questioned ways I’d been toning down my Blackness.
Nov 25, 2021 / StudentNation / Eli Elvin
Those Whiny Nazis Are Now Broke Nazis, Too Those Whiny Nazis Are Now Broke Nazis, Too
A victory for plaintiffs in Charlottesville is a warning to other blockheads looking to import white supremacist violence to diverse cities: It will cost you.
Nov 24, 2021 / Joan Walsh
The Whiniest Nazis Could Still Destroy Our Country The Whiniest Nazis Could Still Destroy Our Country
It’s easy to mock the white supremacists on trial for planning the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville—but that shouldn’t distract us from how frightening they are.
Nov 22, 2021 / Joan Walsh
Kyle Rittenhouse Has Gotten Away With Murder—as Predicted Kyle Rittenhouse Has Gotten Away With Murder—as Predicted
Rittenhouse’s acquittal is not a “miscarriage” of justice, as some might claim. It is our white justice system working as intended.
Nov 19, 2021 / Elie Mystal for The Nation
There’s Still Time to Save Julius Jones There’s Still Time to Save Julius Jones
Julius Jones’s execution is scheduled for today. More than 6 million people have signed a petition pleading for Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt to call it off.
Nov 18, 2021 / Karlos K. Hill and Julius Jones
Minneapolis May Have Rejected That Referendum on the Police Minneapolis May Have Rejected That Referendum on the Police
But the activists’ vision of alternative policing lives on.
Nov 16, 2021 / Ibrahim Hirsi