How Lawmakers Failed Jacob Blake
Jacob Blake, paralyzed and still suffering from injuries, got a phone call on Tuesday afternoon from Kenosha District Attorney Michael Graveley with some news: There would be no charges filed against...
View ArticleThe Phrase “Storm the Capitol” Was Used 100,000 Times Online in the Month...
When a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, law enforcement appeared to have been caught off guard—badly outnumbered by the insurrectionists, and sometimes standing aside as...
View ArticleHere Are the Companies That Will Stop Donating to Republicans Who Voted...
The Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol building were driven by the baseless belief that Democrats stole the election. They were egged on by President Donald Trump, who for weeks has claimed...
View ArticleRepublicans Ask Biden to Stop Impeachment in the “Spirit of Healing.” AOC...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made the case for impeaching President Donald Trump on Sunday, after a group of Republican members of Congress sent a letter to President-elect Joe Biden urging him to...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi Outlines Plan to Remove Trump
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced on Sunday that Democrats will proceed with trying to remove President Donald Trump from office after his supporters violently stormed the Capitol. “In...
View ArticleAn FBI Agent Went Undercover to Study White Supremacists. He’s Now Speaking...
One Capitol Police officer was caught taking a selfie with a member of the white supremacist mob that overtook the US Capitol last week. A second officer has been suspended for wearing a “Make America...
View ArticleA Road Map for Getting Rid of Racist Cops
It’s hard to forget the image: Thomas Robertson and Jacob Fracker, two off-duty Virginia police officers, pose for a selfie in the US Capitol, one of them raising his middle finger to the camera, as...
View ArticleBiden’s White House Is Ready to Tackle Gun Violence. Black-Led Groups Hope...
In a week when Congress debated the second impeachment of a former president, and the current president remained laser-focused on a pandemic and the ongoing recession, President Biden’s top domestic...
View ArticleBreonna Taylor Was Slain One Year Ago Today. The Tragic Police Raids Continue.
One year ago today, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black hospital worker, was shot dead by police in her home in the middle of the night. The Louisville, Kentucky, officers barged in around 12:40 a.m.,...
View ArticlePolice Unions Have Enormous War Chests to Defend Officers Like Derek Chauvin
Derek Chauvin, the former officer who was fired from the Minneapolis Police Department after he kneeled on George Floyd’s neck last May, faces a criminal trial that’s scheduled to begin this month. The...
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Inside the Community Patrols in San Francisco’s Chinatown
Last Tuesday evening in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Forrest Liu, 27, spotted a blue sedan with four passengers idling at the curb outside a barbecue restaurant, where a woman in a red apron could be...
View Article“VC Lives Matter”: Silicon Valley Investors Want to Oust San Francisco’s...
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was at home cooking dinner on a Thursday evening in January when he opened a new app called Clubhouse that lets people drop into virtual “rooms” and listen...
View ArticleChicago Police Rolled Out a Cover-Up After Killing a 13-Year-Old Latino Boy
Last Sunday, Elizabeth Toledo was relieved to see her 13-year-old son, Adam, walk in the door of their West Chicago home. She’d filed a missing-person report with police a day before, but he returned...
View ArticleAs Corporate America Comes Out for Voting Rights, Where’s Next?
On Thursday morning, Sen. Marco Rubio shared a video of himself insulting Delta Airlines officials as “woke corporate hypocrites” because the company had issued a statement opposing a new law that will...
View ArticleWe Have Trainings to Stop Cops From Mistaking Their Guns for a Taser. Few...
On Monday, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said he believed the fatal shooting by police of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was not intentional. In body-cam footage, Officer Kim Potter...
View Article“Dearest Beyoncé”: Myanmar Activists Beg American Brands to Help Them End the...
One evening in March, Nann, a 20-year-old medical student in eastern Myanmar, sat in bed with her phone and composed a Twitter message to Beyoncé. “Dearest @Beyonce, #Myanmar people love you & your...
View ArticleWhat the Hell Is Going on at the Columbus Police Department?
Just minutes before a Minneapolis jury convicted former officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd, and less than a month after a Chicago police officer shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo...
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An Incarcerated Artist Memorializes the “Forgotten” People Killed By COVID in...
Elisabeth “EJ” Joyner sat on the floor of her cell at Arrendale State Prison in Georgia, staring at the mugshot. It showed the unsmiling face of Carmelo Herrera, a 56-year-old incarcerated man in New...
View ArticleBiden and G7 Announce Progress on Climate Change with One Major Failure
President Joe Biden and leaders of some of the world’s richest countries disappointed environmentalists Sunday at the G7 annual summit by failing to agree on a deadline to end their use of coal for...
View ArticleOne More Perk for Getting Your Vaccine? Free Weed.
If the promise of free beer or free subway rides wasn’t enough to lure some people to get their coronavirus vaccines, officials in at least a few states are now offering another perk: free weed....
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