That’s when a congressional committee issued a 435-page analysis of its failings, whose key recommendations have yet to be implemented.
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Posted inCivil Rights in America
Could a Trump Dictatorship Be Resisted?
If he is the next president, we could see civil disobedience on an unprecedented scale. Better to keep him out of the White House in the first place.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
A Fighter for the Working Class
Journalist Linda Tirado is dying after being shot by cops while covering the George Floyd protests. Her work told the story of poverty from the inside out.
Posted inLaw and Justice
SCOTUS Rules on Homelessness as DOJ Reveals a War on the Poor
The Supreme Court’s coming decision on homelessness will exacerbate a new, growing problem.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
‘Mississippi Justice,’ American Shame
We still need federal intervention to drag some jurisdictions out of Jim Crow–era policing.
Posted inLaw and Justice
New Laws Are Turning Police Into ‘Supercitizens’
A series of legislative and judicial efforts have removed police oversight from oversight boards and communities.
Posted inPolitics
The New Anti-Antisemitism
The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Protecting and Serving
Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World
Posted inEducation in America
The Kids Are All Right, but the Police Are Hovering
Virginia Commonwealth University’s recent student protest and university and police reaction is a prime example of the conflict between protecting free speech and ensuring public safety.
Posted inTAP
What College Presidents Need to Learn
Today on TAP: And what Joe Biden had better learn
