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President Obama should follow Attorney General Eric Holder’s lead and commute the sentences of low-level drug offenders.

How the shooting death of the unarmed teenager sparked new activism against police violence in the Bronx.

A target that Republicans and Democrats can unite in vindictive harmony against.

How the New York City Council’s Community Safety Act stands the best chance of curtailing the NYPD’s most destructive racial profiling practices.

An excerpt from the new eBook Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut.

Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn and how a tale of American triumphalism was returned to the child’s world.

Fifty years after the March on Washington, Dr. King’s most famous speech, like his own political legacy, is widely misunderstood.

As the old journalism dies, what does the Bezos era portend?

When a prisoner faces the execution chamber four times in one year, is it not cruel and unusual punishment?

Activists in Durham, North Carolina, have come together in support of Carlos Riley Jr. and against the racial policing they believe has put him behind bars.