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In this increasingly confined land, art is a vital escape—if you can get the instruments past the checkpoint.
Apr 30, 2015 / Sandy Tolan
![Right-Wing Media Try to Spin the Baltimore Riots Into a 2016 Victory](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bill_kristol_cc_img_0.jpg)
Right-Wing Media Try to Spin the Baltimore Riots Into a 2016 Victory Right-Wing Media Try to Spin the Baltimore Riots Into a 2016 Victory
Fox and friends are gearing up for a replay of the 1968 riots that helped bring us Richard Nixon.
Apr 29, 2015 / Leslie Savan
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Why Put Trauma Centers Where No One Gets Shot? Why Put Trauma Centers Where No One Gets Shot?
A Nation investigation looks at the shuttering of needed trauma centers, beginning with those on Chicago’s violent South Side.
Apr 29, 2015 / Feature / Jeffrey Bishku-Aykul
![The American Ritual of Racial Killings](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/baltimore_protests_freddie_gray_ap_img.jpg)
The American Ritual of Racial Killings The American Ritual of Racial Killings
We cannot turn away from police murders, but nor can we see them.
Apr 29, 2015 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
![Apartheid Games: Baltimore, Urban America, and Camden Yards](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/freddie_gray_camden_yards_baltimore_ap_img.jpg)
Apartheid Games: Baltimore, Urban America, and Camden Yards Apartheid Games: Baltimore, Urban America, and Camden Yards
Camden Yards can be seen as a symbol of what ails urban America, and it’s hardly alone.
Apr 28, 2015 / Dave Zirin
![Dispatch From Baltimore: Praying for Peace, Living Another Reality](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/baltimore_protester_ap_img.jpg)
Dispatch From Baltimore: Praying for Peace, Living Another Reality Dispatch From Baltimore: Praying for Peace, Living Another Reality
The emotional distance between Freddie Gray’s moving funeral and the chaos that followed isn’t as wide as it may seem.
Apr 28, 2015 / Stacia L. Brown
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How Cities’ Funding Woes Are Driving Racial and Economic Injustice—And What We Can Do About It How Cities’ Funding Woes Are Driving Racial and Economic Injustice—And What We Can Do About It
It doesn’t stop with Ferguson—common underlying problems create conflict and tension across the country.
Apr 28, 2015 / Brad Lander and Karl Kumodzi
![Toward a New ‘Broken Windows’ Theory](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/baltimore_protest_ap_img.jpg)
Toward a New ‘Broken Windows’ Theory Toward a New ‘Broken Windows’ Theory
What change will a “peaceful” protest spark if a “peaceful” protest is so easy to ignore?
Apr 28, 2015 / Mychal Denzel Smith
![Black Women Aren’t Just Secondary Casualties of Aggressive Policing](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/rekia_boyd_cc_img.jpg)
Black Women Aren’t Just Secondary Casualties of Aggressive Policing Black Women Aren’t Just Secondary Casualties of Aggressive Policing
Prison and early deaths have taken 1.5 million black men from daily life. But the Rekia Boyd case shows that black women are also “missing.”
Apr 27, 2015 / Dani McClain
![What Are Baltimore’s Protesters Asking For?](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/freddie_gray_demonstration_sg_img.png)
What Are Baltimore’s Protesters Asking For? What Are Baltimore’s Protesters Asking For?
The death of Freddie Gray in police custody has sparked outrage over the conduct of the Baltimore Police Department.
Apr 27, 2015 / The Nation