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Buffalo’s Police Brutality Didn’t Start With Martin Gugino Buffalo’s Police Brutality Didn’t Start With Martin Gugino

In the past three years alone, Buffalo police have killed four young men of color under questionable circumstances.

Jun 16, 2020 / Geoff Kelly

The Deep Roots of Our Housing Crisis

The Deep Roots of Our Housing Crisis The Deep Roots of Our Housing Crisis

By examining the history of housing inequality in San Francisco and California, Conor Dougherty makes a sobering case for how and why our politics and politicians have failed.

Jun 16, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rachel M. Cohen

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

The Right Is Scared of the Protests The Right Is Scared of the Protests

Defunding the police? Dethroning Confederate monuments? What’s next, a better tomorrow?

Jun 16, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow

What About the International Students?

What About the International Students? What About the International Students?

The coronavirus threw their lives into disarray. Months in, their futures are still uncertain.

Jun 15, 2020 / StudentNation / Jimin Kang

Person with arm raised in front of burning building

Burning Down the 3rd Police Precinct Changed Everything Burning Down the 3rd Police Precinct Changed Everything

By seizing the cops’ home base, rioters showed that law enforcement is not above the forces of history.

Jun 12, 2020 / Vicky Osterweil

Man leaving A Stopplere

In Defense of Destroying Property In Defense of Destroying Property

We cannot conflate the destruction of plateglass with the violence that is being protested.

Jun 10, 2020 / R.H. Lossin

Phara Souffrant Forrest

Phara Souffrant Forrest Wants to Cancel Your Rent Phara Souffrant Forrest Wants to Cancel Your Rent

The union nurse and tenant activist may be running office for the first time, but she’s been fighting for justice her whole life.

Jun 10, 2020 / Q&A / Sara Baig

Training a Dog

Training a Dog Training a Dog

Scenes from a pandemic: 11

Jun 10, 2020 / Jon Crawford

Liberals: Don’t Be Afraid of Calls to Defund the Police

Liberals: Don’t Be Afraid of Calls to Defund the Police Liberals: Don’t Be Afraid of Calls to Defund the Police

The increasingly popular slogan is expanding the nation’s long-overdue debate about what public safety really means.

Jun 9, 2020 / Joan Walsh

Woman with yellow umbrella walking through Miami

Florida’s Flooded Future: ‘Retreat While There’s Still Time’ Florida’s Flooded Future: ‘Retreat While There’s Still Time’

With sea levels rising, Miami will be underwater by the end of the century.

Jun 8, 2020 / Laura Raim

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