Why We Need Good Police
Even after a massive redistribution of resources, there will remain a need for an agency with the authority to investigate, restrain, and detain those who insist upon criminally victimizing their neighbors.
Summer 2021
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A New Model of Public Safety
Tight-knit communities where residents have access to basic resources and strong local institutions are safer places to live.
A Consistent Approach to Policing
We have written so much about the police in recent months but said too little about what we really want and expect from them.
The Problem of Police Nationalism
Police nationalism is rooted in conservative ideas of law and order, but it has also been sustained by decades of liberal police reform.
Racism’s Roots and Branches 
Racism in the United States is not mainly about individual bias but about divisions forged long ago by the super-exploitation and political dispossession of racialized groups.
Racial Metaphors
If colorblindness rests on the claim that the civil rights movement changed everything, the idea that racism is in our DNA borders on a fatalistic proposition that it changed little or nothing.
The Lives and Deaths of Tony McDade and Malik Jackson
McDade and Jackson’s tragically intertwined lives tell the story of a society that feeds on and maintains oppression through punishment, violence, and isolation. They also show us a way out.
Belabored: The Power of Alt-Labor
Worker centers organize workers excluded from labor regulations and disconnected from mainstream unions. They have brought fresh energy to the labor movement.
Belabored: Black Against Amazon, with Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley
Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley discuss Amazon and the state of the Black working class.
Selma on My Mind
To honor the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March, we must continue the work it started.
Repression in Xi’s China
The tightening of state control over Hong Kong and Xinjiang reveal a consolidation of authority in Xi’s CCP, intent on stifling any signs of nonconformity.
The Desperate Need for an Immigration Overhaul
Biden could ease the suffering inflicted by his predecessors on migrants to the United States. But his administration is unlikely to resolve the structural injustices at the root of the immigration enforcement system.
