I finally finished the six-episode “Running from Cops” podcast. It is fantastic and infuriating, detailing the ways that shows like Cops and Live PD have purposefully and unethically disto
Charges against all officials responsible for the poisoning of Flint’s water supply have been dropped. Everyone reading this news should be furious. Then they should go read Anna Clark’s T
Last week, historian David Garrow published a hatchet job article in the British magazine Standpoint in which he used FBI files to allege that Martin Luther King, Jr. had abetted rape one night in 196
On this holy day of LGM’s 15th birthday, let me return to the hobby horse that got me asked to blog here in the first place: the police and why they’re a problem. Today let’s focus o
Late yesterday after facing intense backlash, Warwick Public Schools in Erik’s beloved Rhode Island reversed a previously announced decision to only serve sun butter (which I didn’t know w
Again, the problem is the Republican Party, not Donald Trump. Mitch McConnell is an infinitely more damaging politician than Donald Trump will ever be, and he was there decades before Trump and will b
My new book is officially out today. Occupied Territory is a project that dates back to my early years in graduate school, which makes this a book roughly a decade in the making. The book takes a hard
Forgive the self-indulgence, but over the weekend I got to hold a copy of my book in my hands for the first time. Later in the weekend, I got word that copies ordered directly from UNC Press had begun