Justice

New Film “Discreet Airlift” Documents the Struggle to Hold U.S. Officials Accountable for Torture

Murtaza Hussain, Johanna Hamilton

- Jun. 3, 2018

In North Carolina, a group of citizens are examining their neighbors' roles in the excesses of the War on Terror.

Seymour M. Hersh sits in the furnitureless office of Dispatch News Service in Washington, May 4, 1970, after being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Hersh disclosed the alleged massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

Seymour Hersh’s New Memoir Is a Fascinating, Flabbergasting Masterpiece

Jon Schwarz

- Jun. 2, 2018

“Reporter” is one of the most compelling, thrilling, and significant books ever written about American journalism.

Men who illegally crossed the Mexico-U.S. border are apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents near McAllen, Texas, U.S., May 9, 2018. REUTERS/Loren Elliott - RC1CE349FBE0

The War on Immigrants

Border Patrol Continues to Exaggerate Danger to Agents to Justify Violence Against Immigrants

Debbie Nathan

- Jun. 1, 2018

New FBI data on assaults against Border Patrol agents shows a 22 percent drop in the number of agents injured.

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 08: After the first major food shopping trip that had been taken in a month, (SNAP funding occurred earlier in the day) the cupboards at the home of Raphael Richmond are well stocked with food. Richmond and her six children adjust to the recent cut in their food stamp (SNAP) allotment. We follow their daily life struggles as the food supply dwindles toward to end of the funding cycle. (Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Banning Drug Offenders From Food Stamps Ended Up Backfiring, New Study Finds

Zaid Jilani

- Jun. 1, 2018

Banning drug traffickers from getting food stamps and welfare cost society at large, research finds.

DENVER, CO - February 08: Part of an exhibit entitled Sing Our Rivers Red at the CHAC Gallery by Navajo/Chicana artist Nanibah Chacon February 08, 2017. The exhibit is associated with Denver's Sing Our Rivers Red March February 14th, 2017 held on the global Murdered and Missing Indigenous Woman Awareness Day and includes letters and earrings from family or those who were murdered or missing. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Indigenous Women Have Been Disappearing for Generations. Politicians Are Finally Starting to Notice.

Alleen Brown

- May. 31, 2018

U.S. lawmakers are beginning to grapple with the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Canada’s inquiry suggests the road ahead will be steep.

Students chant protests slogans during a picket line in front of the main entrance to the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus in San Juan, P.R., on Thursday, May 11, 2017. The university has been on strike for over a month to protest a proposed over $500 million cut in the institutionsÕ budget, and to demand the audit of the public debt. After a small group law students sued the dean and the administration of the campus to gain access to their classes, the court ordered the opening of the schoolÕs gates by 6:00AM today. Students, professors and citizens gathered from dawn at the U.P.R.Õs main gate in fears that the police would forcibly remove the students. Last week the governor of Puerto Rico announced the American territory would declare a type bankruptcy, as allowed under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) to deal with its over $70 billion in public debt. (Photo by Erika P. Rodriguez)

Student Protesters in Puerto Rico Face Trial as Government Criminalizes Dissent

Alice Speri

- May. 31, 2018

A crackdown on dissent is targeting the island's protest movements.

Laurie Metcalf, left, and Roseanne Barr participate in the "Roseanne" panel during the Disney/ABC Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

ABC Fires Roseanne Barr After Her Apology for Her Racist Tweet Confirmed It Was Racist

Robert Mackey

- May. 29, 2018

Roseanne Barr lost her popular television show on Tuesday, when ABC decided to cancel the sitcom after the actress posted a racist, Islamophobic tweet.

The War on Immigrants

Hidden Horrors of "Zero Tolerance" — Mass Trials and Children Taken From Their Parents

Debbie Nathan

- May. 29, 2018

All along the border, immigrants coming into the U.S. — even those applying for asylum at ports of entry — have had their children removed from them.

Isaiah Moore, right, argues with counter demonstrators about race relations during a rally in Coolidge Park on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Organizers said that the purpose of the demonstration, held in response to Saturday's rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., was to declare resistance against Nazism. (Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)

How Identity Politics Has Divided the Left: An Interview With Asad Haider

Rashmee Kumar

- May. 27, 2018

A new book, “Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump,” grapples with the shifting relationship between personal identity and political action.

Members of the Indianapolis Colts take a knee during the Nation Anthem before an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns in Indianapolis, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Voices

The Unbearable Whiteness of NFL Ownership

Shaun King

- May. 25, 2018

President Donald Trump demanded that the NFL suppress the national anthem protests, and the league obliged. Why? Look at the owners.