Uvalde Police Didn’t Move to Save Lives Because That’s Not What Police Do
It should not take an event so devastating to break the spell of policing mythology about what cops do — and what they don't.
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AR-15s Were Made to Explode Human Bodies. In Uvalde, the Bodies Belonged to Children.
Parents awaiting word on their kids were asked by police to provide DNA samples to help identify the children.
Life in America’s Culture of Ultraviolence
“I hated having the power to kill someone,” my father once told me about carrying a gun. But many, many Americans seem to love it.
After Buffalo, Will Corporate America Turn Against the Murdochs and Fox News?
Why the Murdochs should become the next Sacklers.
Abortion Activists Need to Win Back the Culture Before We Can Win Back the Court
Make abortion normal again.
Racist “Replacement” Conspiracy Is Undergirded by a Real Resource Scarcity
It would be folly to ignore the inequality, resource scarcity, and ecological calamity that lurk behind the Buffalo shooter's racist conspiracy theories.
The Right’s Creeping Pro-Natalist Rhetoric on Abortion and Trans Health Care
From the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade draft opinion to bills targeting trans youth, fear of sterilization has emerged as a troubling talking point.
Liberals Are Celebrating a New Book on Rural Trump Voters That Falls Apart Under the Simplest Inspection
Maine state Sen. Chloe Maxmin correctly recognizes that coastal Democrats are confused by rural America. She’s exploiting their ignorance in “Dirt Road Revival.”
![View of anti-abortion demonstrators, many with signs, at the intersection of Constitution Avenue and 1st Street NW during a counter-protest to the Pro Choice March for Women's Lives, Washington DC, March 9, 1986. Among the signs are ones that read 'If You Knew Jesus You Will Not Kill Babys [sic]' 'Abortion Destroys God's Greatest Creation,' 'Feminists For Life, Real Feminists Don't Kill,' and 'I am not a 413-Mo-Old Fetus.' (Photo by Ann E. Zelle/Getty Images)](https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-12778417931-e1652217440502.jpg?fit=768%2C382)
How America's Evangelicals Turned Themselves Into an Anti-Abortion Machine
The books and lectures of Francis Schaeffer played a key role in politicizing Protestant evangelicals and turning them against Roe v. Wade.
My Story: How I Was "Groomed" by My Elementary School Teachers
From encouraging me to read and write, to nudging me to think for myself, their pernicious influence burdens me to this day.