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...

‘Everything around me was getting torn apart’: 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...

Harris Gets Mixed Grades From Progressives After Debate

The 2024 U.S. presidential debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday night presented what progressive organizers and labor leaders described as a stark choice between a...

Mpox Offers Another Chance to Confront Vaccine Inequity

On Aug. 14, the World Health Organization named mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years. When the first declaration was issued in 2022,...

The Cruel but Not Unusual Treatment of the Unhoused

In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, a drainage basin that empties...

The Fatal Flaw in the Border Patrol’s Rescue Program

This story was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, where Tanvi Misra was an Ida B. Wells fellow. Este artículo también está disponible en español. The two Guatemalan...

Does Jesus Hate the Johnson Amendment?

A group representing right-wing preachers is trying to bring about a merger of church and state with a new lawsuit. This is incredibly dangerous....