Two nights ago, I met my partner for a cocktail at a bar near our house in Madison, Wisconsin. (My job is in Iowa City, her job is in Madison,.
Ella Baker was born on this day 115 years ago and died on this day 32 years ago. She's one of the most important political thinkers and organizers in American.
Call me crazy, but an American Christian missionary being killed after illegally invading protected tribal lands in order to convert one of the world’s remaining un-contacted tribes to Christianity during Thanksgiving.
Supposed "pro-life" advocates in the Ohio legislature are advocating killing women and doctors. Flexing their renewed majority in Ohio's House of Representatives, Republican lawmakers last week passed a number of.
I'm at a conference and don't have the time to write much about it right now, but a rare piece of good news: Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago Police Department.
Some readers will likely remember Matt Desmond as the author of the award-winning Evicted, which documents in intimate detail the eviction crisis in Milwaukee. Desmond has a new piece in the Times.
News from Memphis: When the ACLU of Tennessee filed a lawsuit against the Memphis Police Department in March 2017, its lawyers accused the police department of spying on local protesters in violation.
This is a fantastic piece by the great historian of Reconstruction Greg Downs on the long and winding history of voter registration, voter participation, the purposeful narrowing of the American.
