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Derek Chauvin and Amy Cooper Are One and The Same

Bogus allegations waged by white women are just as dangerous as police brutality—and come from the same callous privilege.

Chandra Thomas Whitfield

Rural America

Bringing Back the Buffalo Was Always Important to the Rosebud Sioux. The Pandemic Made It Urgent

Stephanie Woodard

Labor

Unpaid Prison Barber Made to Work During Covid Says, “We Aren’t Properly Disinfecting Anything”

Ella Fassler

Viewpoint

In U.S. Counties Where Lynchings Were Prevalent, Police Are More Likely to Shoot Black People

Areas with higher numbers of lynchings from 1877 to 1950 have more officer-involved shootings of Black Americans today.

Jhacova Williams and Carl Romer

Viewpoint

The Long List of Names That Came Before Breonna Taylor and George Floyd

Samuel Williams. Tyisha Miller. Amadou Diallo. Eric Garner. I've reported their names for decades. This time feels different.

Salim Muwakkil

Labor

AFL-CIO Leader Richard Trumka Defends Police Unions by Comparing Them to Employers

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

It’s Not Just Covid That Has Hondurans Starving. It’s Also U.S. Policy.

On the roots of the Honduran hunger crisis.

Meghan Krausch

Labor

Celebrating Juneteenth, Labor Finds Its Voice for Racial Justice

Hamilton Nolan

Rural America

Deadly Drift: The Herbicide Dicamba is Damaging Trees Across the Midwest and South

Johnathan Hettinger

LaborViewpoint

The Thing About Police Unions

Adeshina Emmanuel

Labor

SEIU President: Expelling Police Unions From the Labor Movement “Has to Be Considered”

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Undocumented Farmworkers Are Refusing Covid Tests for Fear of Losing Their Jobs

Michelle Fawcett and Arun Gupta

Feature

A Virtual Charter School Company Says Covid-19 Is the ‘Tailwind’ It’s Been Waiting For

Critics say online learning is failing low-income students. But some for-profit companies are pushing to make it the new normal.

Indigo Olivier

Rural America

‘An Abrupt Wake-Up Call’: Alaska Peers into a Future Without Oil

Yereth Rosen

Feature

New York’s Samelys López Has a Radical Proposal: Poverty Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence

López, a left-wing challenger running for Congress, discusses disaster capitalism, defunding police and how she's taking on the Democratic establishment.

Malaika Jabali

Feature

How Our Bloated Military Strengthens the Police State

The violent U.S. domination of people of color overseas is inextricably linked to the oppression of people of color at home.

Shireen Al-Adeimi and Sarah Lazare

Labor

Chicago Teachers Join the Nationwide Movement to Kick Cops Out of Schools

Indigo Olivier

Labor

Workers United Branch Calls on AFL-CIO to Expel Police Unions

Hamilton Nolan