Police release body cam video of officer killing innocent woman at home
The Fort Worth Police Department recently released the body cam footage of an officer fatally shooting a woman at home without identifying...
‘We never made it to the polls’: Police in North Carolina pepper-spray voting march,...
“We believe that this interaction, this interference from local authorities, has obstructed our marchers from not only lifting up our First Amendment rights to protest, to speak out, but also our rights to vote.”
A dangerous moment for academic freedom
Florida officials say they want to promote “intellectual freedom” — by using political surveys to target university funding.
Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from the public
Massachusetts police can seize and keep money from drug-related arrests. No one has publicly reported how that money gets spent. A WBUR/ProPublica investigation found that Boston police used over $600,000 of it on a controversial surveillance device.
Majority of Americans of all religions or none want legal abortion, except for Evangelicals...
Even if you add all abortion critics in all the religions together, they are a minority of the country.
What threatens Florida more, hurricanes or the rich?
Florida’s state government doesn’t call the shots. Florida’s rich do, and the continuing immensity of their after-tax incomes has turned out to matter far more to state policy than the well-being of Floridian families of modest means.
Feminism: Women’s strike in Switzerland with more than 500,000 women participating
On Friday, the 14th of June 2019, hundreds of thousands of women went on strike throughout Switzerland for the second time after 1991....
Are we heading toward a constitutional crisis over immigration?
Does the potential exist for a direct conflict between two branches of government?
8 lessons US progressives can learn from the UK Labour Party
As of mid-July, Labour is 8 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives. Here’s how they did it.
The Intellectuals We Abandon
"One of the many cruelties of corporate capitalism is that it has abandoned the poor and, among them, the gifted intellectuals I teach."








