Illinois Has Put an End to the Injustice of Cash Bail Illinois Has Put an End to the Injustice of Cash Bail
Amid a national backlash against criminal justice reform, Illinois has achieved something extraordinary. It’s working better than anyone expected.
Dec 2, 2024 / Feature / Bryce Covert
Healing USA Healing USA
Honoring BIPOC should be as American as Thanksgiving.
Nov 29, 2024 / OppArt / Airco Caravan
The Exiled Palestinian Poet Fighting Censorship in Democracies The Exiled Palestinian Poet Fighting Censorship in Democracies
Ghayath Almadhoun had a poetry event in Berlin canceled simply because he’s Palestinian. At least 200 more artists have been silenced over Palestine in Germany since.
Nov 29, 2024 / Ghayath Almadhoun
Facing Legal Threats, Colleges Back Off From Race-Based Programs Facing Legal Threats, Colleges Back Off From Race-Based Programs
College programs designed to give students from underrepresented groups a foothold in careers are being reframed or disappearing.
Nov 27, 2024 / Laura Pappano and Joanna Hou
America Has Done Mass Deportation Before America Has Done Mass Deportation Before
From the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the deportation of Mexican-Americans during the Great Depression, Trump can easily find precedents for his policy. None of them ended well.
Nov 25, 2024 / Eric Foner
The Elite College Students Fighting to End Legacy Admissions The Elite College Students Fighting to End Legacy Admissions
In November, organizers at more than 18 universities met for a conference with Class Action to discuss how to democratize higher education.
Nov 20, 2024 / StudentNation / Aina Marzia
How Love Fuels Resistance: Parenting for Liberation How Love Fuels Resistance: Parenting for Liberation
Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson discuss their new anthology, We Grow the World Together, about how caregiving and the organizing work of abolitionists can go hand in hand.
Nov 19, 2024 / Q&A / Regina Mahone
Tell Me What You’re Feeling… Tell Me What You’re Feeling…
Cartoonist Mahasen Al-Khatib killed in Gaza strip bombing.
Nov 19, 2024 / Gianluca Costantini and Mahasen Al-Khatib
When Does Power Concede? Thwarting MAGA Will Take More Than Protest and Symbolic Resistance. When Does Power Concede? Thwarting MAGA Will Take More Than Protest and Symbolic Resistance.
If we want to deploy actual power to block Trump’s vicious agenda once he takes control of the federal government, we will have to look to the states.
Nov 19, 2024 / Van Gosse
Slavery in an Age of Emancipation Slavery in an Age of Emancipation
Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century.
Nov 19, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Manisha Sinha