This College Is Charging Students With Trespassing For Holding a Peaceful, On-Campus Protest
A month after an on-campus protest in upstate New York, a college charged protest organizers with trespassing, failure to comply, and operating a business.
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IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color
New York City served as IBM’s “primary testing area” for developing software that enables police to search surveillance video footage for skin color.
The EPA’s Bungled Response to an Air Pollution Crisis Exposes a Toxic Racial Divide
How government responds to cancer-causing air pollution depends a lot on where you live and the color of your skin.
A Podcast in the Making: Getting Emotional About Labor
Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Astra Taylor discuss labor and the future of work in a new podcast pilot.
Student Protesters in Puerto Rico Face Trial as Government Criminalizes Dissent
A crackdown on dissent is targeting the island's protest movements.
Notre Dame Struck a Secret Deal With the Trump Administration to Deny Birth Control Coverage. Now Students Are Fighting Back.
The Trump administration bypassed the judicial system to negotiate a backroom settlement with 74 religiously affiliated institutions, including Notre Dame.
What Kind of Resistance? The Battle for New York Attorney General Opens Up a Rift
Will big money swamp the New York attorney general race, or are Democrats looking to shake things up?
The New Yorker Dropped Steve Bannon, but Misses the Point of Why the Invite Was a Mistake in the First Place
The New Yorker withdrew its invitation to Steve Bannon, but missed the point about why giving the white nationalist a platform is so dangerous.
The Woman Standing in the Way of the Privatization of Thousands of Jobs in Tennessee Was Just Fired
The battle in Tennessee pits the state’s GOP governor, Bill Haslam, against its public workers.
New House Bill Would Empower Donald Trump to Punish U.S. Companies that Boycott Israel
“This is another blatant attempt to criminalize Americans’ right to boycott and potentially even more dangerous than previous attempts.”