The International Criminal Court on Thursday rebuked the Trump administration for slapping sanctions and travel restrictions on court staff investigating alleged war crimes committed by U.S., calling the action "an unacceptable attempt to interfere with the rule of...
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Georgia Shows How Serious the Threat of Voter Suppression Will Be This November
Georgia is now ground zero for voter suppression. The state’s largest newspaper summed up the crisis on the morning after Tuesday’s primary election in the state descended into chaos: “‘Complete Meltdown.’” Kristen Clarke, the president and executive director of...
Press Passes: The NYPD giveth and the NYPD taketh away
LAST WEEK, BEFORE HEADING OUT to report on New York City’s intensifying protests over the death of George Floyd, I cut a patch out of a white T-shirt, scribbled press on it with a black Sharpie, and pinned it to my backpack. A few days later, feeling the need for an...
Media Are Slowly Starting to Be Serious About Police Violence
As the George Floyd protests against police violence erupted around the nation, a massive amount of evidence of police brutality was widely captured through social media. Unfortunately, very little of it made it to mainstream outlets until much later. For...
Freedom Rider: Rebellion, Confusion, Scoundrels and Kente Cloth
Black rebellion brings insecurity to those in power, as editors, mayors and even long dead criminals are being called to account. “Demands for community control and abolition must remain at the top of the list.” Everything has changed since the world witnessed George...
Joe Biden and Top Democrats Won’t Defund Police — But Our Cities Can
Facing attacks from President Trump, Joe Biden’s campaign said on Monday that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee would not answer the call from hundreds of thousands of people who have taken to the streets to defund local police departments. However, most...
We Need More Care, Not More Cops
They are everywhere at the protests, handing out masks, squirts of hand sanitizer, bottles of water, energy bars. They don’t have a name, really, the people who decide to come to the marches prepared to keep others around them safe, fed, and hydrated. There are...
Besieged by Protesters Demanding Racial Justice, Trump Signs Order Waiving Environmental Safeguards
With the nation convulsed by multiple crises, President Donald Trump returned to a favorite stand-by of his presidency—asserting his authority to sweep aside environmental restraints and speed up construction of oil and gas pipelines. But the executive order that he...
Jim Mattis vs. Tom Cotton: No Contest
As the revolt against The New York Times’ decision to publish GOP Senator Tom Cotton’s op-ed calling on President Donald Trump to “send in the troops” spread across social media Wednesday night, encouraged by brave Times writers who publicly challenged the move, it...
Trump Is Framing US Residents as Enemies to Be Met by Force. Don’t Let Him.
Donald Trump, who has cratered in opinion polls this spring as the pandemic and the economic collapse have battered the U.S., is attempting to turn this past week’s explosion of political protest amid a deadly pandemic into his Reichstag fire moment. Back in 1933,...