Voices
Paul Manafort Didn’t Get Off Easy — Unless You Compare Him to Whistleblower Reality Winner
Paul Manafort received less than sentencing guidelines call for, while Reality Winner received the harshest sentence ever for leaking.
Justice
Voices
Two NYPD Cops Coerced Sex With a Teen in Their Custody — and Prosecutors Just Dropped Rape Charges
"They were cops, they raped her, and they’re getting away with it. Look at the message this sends to the public.”
A Lakota Historian on What Climate Organizers Can Learn From Two Centuries of Indigenous Resistance
In “Our History Is the Future,” Nick Estes examines the tradition of Indigenous resistance that gave rise to today’s fights against fossil fuel development.
Voices
Trump Cited a Letter Against Ilhan Omar Signed by Far-Right, Anti-Muslim Groups
The letter's metadata lists as its author an activist who has inveighed against refugees, Palestinians, and American Jews.
The War on Immigrants
How Two Immigration Lawyers Created a Rapid-Response Team to Combat ICE
Two New York attorneys created a “guerrilla habeas” team to fight ICE detentions and deportations.
Israel’s War on Gaza
Inside the Israeli Right’s Campaign to Silence an Anti-Occupation Group
Breaking the Silence is at the epicenter of a well-orchestrated, ongoing smear campaign by a host of right-wing groups, reporters, and senior politicians.
Voices
Chelsea Manning Fights Subpoena — Showing How Federal Grand Juries Are Unaccountable Tools of Repression
Chelsea Manning’s decision to fight her subpoena is an act of resistance against government repression and in defense of a free press.
The Double Life of Civil Rights Photographer and FBI Informant Ernest Withers
In “Bluff City,” Preston Lauterbach explores the secret life of Ernest Withers, a civil rights hero who secretly worked for the FBI.
The War on Immigrants
Muslim Immigrants Sue ICE for Getting in the Way of Religious Observance
“Glades County Detention Center for more than a year has been preventing Somali Muslim men from practicing their faith in various ways.”
Voices
"One of the Most Taboo Conversations" — New Yorkers Push to Decriminalize Sex Work
To fight for the decriminalization of sex work is to fight for and with society’s most vulnerable and marginalized communities.