In five years, Chicago has barely made progress on its court-ordered police reforms. Here’s...
Now many of the city’s reform advocates have lost faith in the process and are increasingly concerned that the opportunity for lasting reform is slipping away.
Two NJ cops charged with assaulting innocent teen on video
“Police officers who abuse their positions to exert power over and injure the citizens they are supposed to protect violate our Constitution and erode trust in our public institutions.”
The Pre-Charge Punishment of Julian Assange
While Julian Assange, the founder and editor of the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, was granted political asylum from Ecuador, the U.K. is refusing to give him free passage out of the country. Could this be an act for the U.S. who wants him jailed?
A rising youth movement picks up where governments have failed
The youth movement is diverse and contains many political currents, but above all it is an expression of positive action, hope for the future, and readiness for far-reaching change.
Taking a hard look at police killings
Can re-imagining city budgets make our communities safer?
The police killing of Elijah McClain and his mother’s pursuit of justice
It’s not just that movements make a difference. They make all the difference.
Illegitimate power, illegitimate violence: How nations are built on the backs of disenfranchised children
True justice begins at birth, not in systems that mask inequality with the language of freedom and hide civil erasure behind institutional power.
“Give us the moratorium”: Rep. Cori Bush sleeps on Capitol steps demanding eviction protection
“This isn’t easy. This is not performative in any way. I would rather be at home, but I understand the urgency and the need of this crisis right now.”
Guantánamo’s indelible legacy
Or how this became a Gitmo world.
His former company got caught employing undocumented workers. Now he’s profiting off an immigrant...
It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.