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Baltimore’s Inescapable Inequality

Baltimore’s Inescapable Inequality Baltimore’s Inescapable Inequality

What looks like a night of “chaos” in Baltimore was just one freeze-frame in a long arc of urban crisis.

May 1, 2015 / Michelle Chen

Other Fergusons, Other Baltimores

Other Fergusons, Other Baltimores Other Fergusons, Other Baltimores

Can we talk about the economic devastation of American cities and black communities before someone else is killed?

May 1, 2015 / Bryce Covert

Makayla Gilliam-Price and Baltimore’s Debt to a Remarkable Family

Makayla Gilliam-Price and Baltimore’s Debt to a Remarkable Family Makayla Gilliam-Price and Baltimore’s Debt to a Remarkable Family

If you want to understand what is happening in Baltimore, listen to Makayla Gilliam-Price and learn about her family.

May 1, 2015 / Dave Zirin

Defend Charlie Hebdo’s Publishing Disgusting Cartoons About Muslims? Yes. Give Them an Award for It? No.

Defend Charlie Hebdo’s Publishing Disgusting Cartoons About Muslims? Yes. Give Them an Award for It? No. Defend Charlie Hebdo’s Publishing Disgusting Cartoons About Muslims? Yes. Give Them an Award for It? No.

The issue is the cartoons—and what they mean to ordinary French Muslims.

May 1, 2015 / Jon Wiener

New ACLU Cellphone App Automatically Preserves Video of Police Encounters

New ACLU Cellphone App Automatically Preserves Video of Police Encounters New ACLU Cellphone App Automatically Preserves Video of Police Encounters

Even if the cops seize a phone and destroy it, the video will be saved.

May 1, 2015 / Jon Wiener

May 1, 1941: ‘Citizen Kane’ Is Released

May 1, 1941: ‘Citizen Kane’ Is Released May 1, 1941: ‘Citizen Kane’ Is Released

“Hollywood will for a long time be in debt to Mr. Welles,” The Nation’s review predicted.

May 1, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

6 Degrees of Separation Between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton

6 Degrees of Separation Between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton 6 Degrees of Separation Between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton

The very different candidates for the Democratic nomination have a lot to debate.

Apr 30, 2015 / John Nichols

Are the Baltimore Police Using Twitter for Public Safety, or Propaganda?

Are the Baltimore Police Using Twitter for Public Safety, or Propaganda? Are the Baltimore Police Using Twitter for Public Safety, or Propaganda?

The police department has used social media as virtual riot gear, manufacturing the narrative of violence in the digital realm as they were escalating it on the ground.

Apr 30, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter

How the Senate Armed Services Committee Is Undermining Minsk II

How the Senate Armed Services Committee Is Undermining Minsk II How the Senate Armed Services Committee Is Undermining Minsk II

A peaceful solution to the crisis in Ukraine may be at risk.

Apr 30, 2015 / James Carden

6 Scholars Who Are ‘Reimagining Black Politics’

6 Scholars Who Are ‘Reimagining Black Politics’ 6 Scholars Who Are ‘Reimagining Black Politics’

There’s a world of urgent discourse beyond Dyson, West, and Gates.

Apr 30, 2015 / Dani McClain

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