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You Should Stop Calling Immigrants “Migrants”
A subtle bipartisan shift in the language of immigration has opened the door to vilification and dehumanization.
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There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Other
A police shooting that injured three people and one officer is the result of New York Mayor Eric Adams’s enforcement-first mentality.
They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.
FBI counterterror officials went in person to Michigan to spy on “Stop Camp Grayling” demonstrators, new documents reveal.
A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. Missouri’s Attorney General Got in the Way.
After the AG's meddling, a trial court judge rejected Williams's innocence claim — even though prosecutors mishandled the murder weapon.
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Kamala Harris Accepted Trump’s Racist Lie That Immigration Is Bad
In a total capitulation to a far-right narrative, even typical liberal shibboleths about our “nation of immigrants” were absent on Tuesday night.
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Justice for Indigenous Nations Is Rare. But This Supreme Court Decision Proves It Is Possible.
The Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma resulted in the largest restoration of Indigenous land in U.S. history.
The Intercept Sues to Release 911 Recordings From Trump Rally Shooting
Questions remain about the police response to the shooting of former President Donald Trump — questions that 911 logs may help answer.
Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Junk Science. Texas Plans to Be First to Execute Someone for It.
A decade after Texas passed landmark legislation to address flawed forensics, the courts have refused to apply it as intended.
Cop Who Shot Sonya Massey Lied to Make a Drug Arrest. It Didn’t Hurt His Career.
Sean Grayson had a history of credibility issues. It didn’t stop him from being hired at police departments in Central Illinois.
His Best Chance to Get Off Death Row Was DNA on the Murder Weapon, but Prosecutors “Contaminated” the Evidence
The prosecutor’s actions two decades ago doomed Marcellus Williams’s shot at exoneration. Now the AG won’t let his life be spared.