
Author: Simon Balto

Important read from Caroline Randall Williams. I don’t think this is true of most LGM readers, but this is especially important if you’re a white person disingenuously (or cluelessly) sayi
This is an important study on what those who live in America’s most overpoliced neighborhoods think of their situation. I know of no survey that’s this comprehensive and directly conversan

Minneapolis is disbanding its police department.
Earlier this week Chicago Police Department officers beat the president of the Chicago Police Board during a protest in Hyde Park. The board president declared himself to not be mad about it: Officers

While many things have been put on pause in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, cops murdering Black people is not one of them. Yesterday in Minneapolis is the latest example, when white MPD officer Der
When I’ve posted things in recent months that indicate my support of Bernie Sanders’ candidacy for president, it has not been lost on me that factions of the LGM commentariat have essentia

The United States is the global leader in locking up its own citizens. We are the most systematically punitive nation on earth. This has been an abomination for decades — one of many things prov
On Monday I noted that the African American Intellectual History Society is hosting a week-long roundtable on my book. I forgot to post a link to yesterday’s contribution, so here it is. It̵
- Fixing Social Security
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,291
- Going broke underestimating the intelligence of the public
- Head coach is an enormously important position
- Earthquake in Turkey
- Pizzagate at the Nation
- Nazis plotted to destroy Baltimore’s power grid
- Russia and the Polycrisis
- A tiger
- The great Chinese balloon freakout