The Washington Post's Radley Balko was a pioneer in reporting on the disastrous consequences of police militarization and the need for criminal justice reform. Now everyone else is catching up.
Neither does Portland. But the fact that the violence is continuous and seems to be escalating is cause for concern.
"This research will inform and fuel much needed and overdue policy change."
The three-day retreat will help 44 top officials "come to grips with the critical questions of racism and inclusion."
There’s nothing wrong with a little linguistic housekeeping, but reclassifying dozens of common words, expressions, and songs as slurs goes too far.
"Well-intentioned efforts to celebrate diversity may in fact reinforce racial stereotyping," say two Carleton College faculty.
In Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball reckons with a white supremacist ancestor. Try explaining that to the students.
An encounter between militias in Louisville shows the enduring practical and symbolic importance of the right to armed self-defense.
"Garrett Foster understood that libertarianism was about speaking on behalf of those who are the most acutely affected by the abuses perpetrated by an overly aggressive and unaccountable government."
Worried about how the latest COVID-19 workaround might exacerbate inequality? Maybe open the damned elementary schools instead.
John Lewis' life was a testament to the power of free speech and peaceful agitation.
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Never mind the court order showing the child as a dependent in her care.
Irate employees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art said the removal of Gary Garrels was "non-negotiable."
As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.
Douglass' classic speech is an indictment of slavery, racism, and American hypocrisy - but also includes a great deal of praise of the American Revolution.
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
The Washington Post's Radley Balko vs. the Manhattan Institute's Rafael Mangual on whether "there is overwhelming evidence that the criminal justice system is racist."
The Washington Post's Radley Balko vs. The Manhattan Institute's Rafael Mangual on whether or not "there is overwhelming evidence that the criminal justice system is racist."
A North Carolina officer was fired after saying, "We are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them fucking niggers."
The Brown University economist says prejudice and systemic racism are not the primary problems facing African Americans.
The Brown University economist and outspoken critic of Black Lives Matter discusses George Floyd, social progress, and the state of political discourse.
There is good reason to take down Confederate monuments. But rioting and vandalism are the wrong way to go about it.
These reforms would protect all Americans while reducing racial disparities in policing.
A white mayor is pursuing a racially fraught investigation of a black man for hanging exercise straps in a park. What could go wrong?
Frederick Douglass: "There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."
How to reduce police killings and enact lasting change.
How to stop police killings and enact real, lasting reforms.
If "defunding the police" means abolishing them completely, it's a bad idea. But there are ways to use cuts in funding to improve police incentives for the better.
No, we should interrogate its persistent popularity and our relationship to it as forcefully as possible.
Why racial profiling is an important problem, why it's so difficult to address, and what can nonetheless be done about it.
Good riddance to the racist, anti-immigrant congressman from Iowa.
Princeton's Omar Wasow talks about the complicated effects of civil rights demonstrations, police brutality, and racial fears on public policy.
If you are unwilling to do whatever you can to stop injustice, injustice is all the more likely to continue unabated.
Much can and must be done to curb police brutality. The task is difficult, but far from hopeless. But riots and looting are both wrong in themselves, and likely to have counterproductive results.
They still were a lot better-behaved than officers elsewhere.
Little Richard helped make the United States a little more black, a little more queer, and a little more free.
The video was appalling, but it does not constitute a safety threat.
Economic historian Phillip W. Magness on classical liberalism and abolition, Abraham Lincoln's contested legacy, and why history matters in contemporary politics.
The city's overzealous commission has ordered the company to stop selling dolls some said were racial caricatures.
Race to Dinner has come up with an impressive con, and the marks are paying up.
Embattled chancellor even playing the outside agitators card in the face of mounting parental criticism
"Mandating the use of The 1619 Project in K-12 curricula is at best premature until these issues are resolved."
Hate crime data suggest that claim is overblown.
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