The Department of Justice building before dawn in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9, 2021. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images I was sitting at an awards ceremony at my son’s high school last week when I saw an email pop… Read More ›
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Atlanta Mayor Punts Crime Fighting to Secret Committee
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks during a press conference in Atlanta on March 17, 2021. Photo: Megan Varner/Getty Images Atlanta is engaged in a very public argument about how to fight rising crime. The mayor’s approach is to barricade the… Read More ›
Yes, Blame Christian Fundamentalism for the Atlanta Murders
Crabapple First Baptist Church, where the Atlanta shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long was an active member, in Milton, Ga., on March 17, 2021. Photo: Nicole Craine/The New York Times/Redux Why did Robert Aaron Long kill six Asian women, in three… Read More ›
In Furor Over Poet With Child Porn Conviction, Prison Abolitionists Debate the Limits of Mercy
Issues of Poetry magazine are displayed at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Ill., on Dec. 16, 2009. Photo: Zbigniew Bzdak/Tribune News Service via Getty Images A bedrock principle of the prison abolitionist movement is that you don’t ask an incarcerated… Read More ›
Confronting the Long Arc of U.S. Border Policy
Migrants from Haiti stand near the Zaragoza-Ysleta International Bridge after being deported from the United States in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Feb. 3, 2021. Photo: Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters The celebratory clamor surrounding President Joe Biden’s 100-day deportation moratorium was short-lived,… Read More ›
Facebook and Twitter Finally Do Slightly More Than Literally Nothing About Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump uses his cellphone as he holds a roundtable discussion with governors in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2020. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The swirling of the last dregs of the Trump administration around the drain has… Read More ›
Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary Is Everything That's Wrong With the Democratic Party
On Tuesday, after some public tokenizing and horse trading, President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team crowned dairy industry lobbyist and former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to lead the Department of Agriculture. Vilsack won out over House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn’s pick,… Read More ›
Biden Is the Perfect Figurehead for the Post-Trump National Security Establishment
There can be no doubt that in rejecting Donald Trump, voters in the United States removed one of the most cold-hearted, openly racist, and bigoted administrations to govern the U.S. in modern history. There are tangible Trump policies, including on… Read More ›
Biden’s Choice on Julian Assange and the First Amendment
A man holds a sign calling for the release of Julian Assange as people march and rally on May 1, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: David McNew/Getty Images When Joe Biden becomes president of the United States on January… Read More ›
Georgia Democrat Drops Out, Paving the Way for QAnon Candidate to Enter Congress
A sign showing support for Marjorie Taylor Greene is seen on a vehicle outside an election watch event, late Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Rome, Ga. Photo: AP/Mike Stewart. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican nominee for Congress in northern Georgia… Read More ›