Will Atlanta’s “Stop Cop City” Referendum Make It Onto the Ballot? Will Atlanta’s “Stop Cop City” Referendum Make It Onto the Ballot?
Organizers collected 116,000 signatures in support of a referendum to repeal the ordinance authorizing the police training facility, but it’s unclear if—and when—the initiative wi...
Oct 26, 2023 / StudentNation / Mira Sydow
It’s Time to Abolish Grand Juries Once and for All It’s Time to Abolish Grand Juries Once and for All
Whether they’re targeting Donald Trump or Cop City protesters, grand juries are an irredeemable and unaccountable tool of state prosecutorial power.
Sep 27, 2023 / Chava Shapiro and James Clark
German Like Me German Like Me
Culture / September 20, 2023 German Like Me How an Afro-German TV series about the GDR’s first Black police officer became an international hit. Linda Mannheim Share Facebook T…
Sep 20, 2023 / Linda Mannheim
Cop City and the Silencing of Dissent Cop City and the Silencing of Dissent
Officials in Georgia are covering up the police killing of a protester and waging a chilling assault on the right to protest.
Sep 14, 2023 / Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib
How Georgia Indicted a Movement How Georgia Indicted a Movement
The state’s prosecution of Stop Cop City protesters is astonishingly honest in its ambitions to crush Georgia’s left.
Sep 12, 2023 / Zohra Ahmed and Elizabeth Taxel
September 11, 22nd Anniversary September 11, 22nd Anniversary
Militants associated with al-Qaeda carried out the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S. history, resulting in almost 3,000 people killed in New York, Washington DC,...
Sep 11, 2023 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
In Defense of Drug Decriminalization—Yes, in Oregon In Defense of Drug Decriminalization—Yes, in Oregon
By passing Measure 110, Oregonians sought to begin undoing the harms caused by over 50 years of a failed War on Drugs. Those harms won’t be fixed overnight.
Sep 8, 2023 / Abdullah Shihipar, Alexandria Macmadu, and Brandon D.L. Marshall
Progressives Need to Have Real Answers on Crime Progressives Need to Have Real Answers on Crime
California shows that unless the left acknowledges the need to make communities safe while maintaining support for criminal justice reform, right-wing demagogues will latch onto t...
Sep 1, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky
The Limits of Vivek Ramaswamy’s Racist Con Game The Limits of Vivek Ramaswamy’s Racist Con Game
While the emerging GOP star benefits from the right’s version of affirmative action, his ugly response to the Jacksonville shootings shows the cost—and constraints—of his strategy.
Aug 28, 2023 / Jeet Heer
Americans Are More Violent Than Ever, and We Have No One to Blame but Ourselves Americans Are More Violent Than Ever, and We Have No One to Blame but Ourselves
This has been a violent American century—but even less recognized is how our War on Terror helped us to turn on one another.
Aug 24, 2023 / Andrea Mazzarino