Social Justice

‘Fund the Police’ Backfired — and Gave Trump More Power Than Ever

In the past four years, mainstream Democrats have: nominated a former prosecutor for president; elected an ex-NYPD officer to run New York City; campaigned on deporting more people; funneled...

Don’t Panic

The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack. Look, the reelection of Donald Trump is bad news. A lot...

The Billion-Dollar Tumble

Kamala Harris’ devastating loss to Donald Trump was a catastrophic failure for the Democratic Party and the consultant...

Threats to the First Amendment in the Age of Trump

I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the...

A Moment for Determination, Not Fatalism

When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford...

From Heroes to Suspects: The Betrayal of the Anti-ISIS International Brigade

Once they were heroes. From 2014 on, hundreds of U.S. and international volunteers travelled to Syrian Kurdistan to join Kurdish-led forces battling the Islamic...

The Downfall of the Abbé Pierre

All around France, portraits of the country’s most famous man are being taken down. Statues are being removed and the streets and squares are...

Poverty in California Has Nearly Doubled Since 2021

For two years, researchers have both feared and expected that California’s poverty levels, annually the highest in the nation, would take off once the effects...

How Abortion Bans Kill By Delaying Emergency Medical Care

This story was originally published by ProPublica. In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was...

The Gaza War Is an Environmental Catastrophe

“Ever-worsening shortages of water and electricity. Catastrophic flooding in dense urban areas. Food insecurity exacerbated by drastic temperature increases, reduction in overall rainfall, and...

‘Everything Around Me Was Getting Torn Tpart’: Israel Strikes Another ‘Safe Zone’

Flashlights in the hands of rescue workers break the dense darkness over the sand in al-Mawasi, the tent encampment sheltering displaced Palestinians in Khan...