A Crop of Reform-Minded Mayors Is Trying to Fix Policing and Fight Mass Incarceration A Crop of Reform-Minded Mayors Is Trying to Fix Policing and Fight Mass Incarceration
In their choice of a police chief and through other local initiatives, mayors can make major strides in improving the way their constituents interact with police and the criminal j...
Mar 12, 2018 / Collier Meyerson
The West Virginia Teachers Strike Shows That Winning Big Requires Creating a Crisis The West Virginia Teachers Strike Shows That Winning Big Requires Creating a Crisis
The strikers won all five of their demands by shutting down every public school in the state.
Mar 12, 2018 / Jane McAlevey
What Happens After the Progressive Revolution Comes to a City Like Durham? What Happens After the Progressive Revolution Comes to a City Like Durham?
On the challenges of governing a bright-blue city in the middle of a hot-red state.
Mar 12, 2018 / Barry Yeoman
If Trump Had Final Cut of Oscar Nominees If Trump Had Final Cut of Oscar Nominees
Cartoonist Steve Brodner reveals the president’s tremendous alternative endings for five Best Picture contenders to make the (sad!) Oscars great again.
Mar 12, 2018 / OppArt / Steve Brodner
Shirley Chisholm Deserves a Great Big Statue Honoring Her in the Capitol Shirley Chisholm Deserves a Great Big Statue Honoring Her in the Capitol
Kamala Harris and Yvette Clarke have a bill that would do just that.
Mar 9, 2018 / John Nichols
It’s Time to Abolish ICE It’s Time to Abolish ICE
A mass-deportation strike force is incompatible with democracy and human rights.
Mar 9, 2018 / Sean McElwee
Circus of the Mind Circus of the Mind
There is no escape from the daily anxiety of a mad man running the country.
Chris Hayes: For Trump, Crime Is Not a Problem to Be Solved, It Is a Weapon to Be Wielded Chris Hayes: For Trump, Crime Is Not a Problem to Be Solved, It Is a Weapon to Be Wielded
How the president has changed the “law and order” debate.
Mar 9, 2018 / Jon Wiener
Walter Jones Jr. Is a Voice of Dissent in the GOP Walter Jones Jr. Is a Voice of Dissent in the GOP
Haunted by his vote to authorize the Iraq War, the Republican congressman is standing up against US military actions.
Mar 9, 2018 / Feature / Barry Yeoman
Here’s How California Is Resisting Jeff Sessions on Immigration Policy Here’s How California Is Resisting Jeff Sessions on Immigration Policy
It’s fighting back with street protests—led by the state’s top politicians—and high-powered lawyers in the courts.
Mar 8, 2018 / Sasha Abramsky