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This pandemic calls for us to challenge our militarized notion of security. There is ample evidence that a militarized response will further criminalize marginalized communities of color who are often targets of over-policing and imprisonment.

The Trump Administration continues to strip away environmental protections in the face of the pandemic. But Trump isn’t the first to try to use emergencies to implement regressive policies, and history shows that the people can fight back — and win.

On the rise and fall (for now) of Operation Car Wash’s patron in Brazil, former judge and now former Bolsonaro minister of Justice Sergio Moro. Is the judge who convicted former President Lula da Silva positioning himself to run for President?

The White House will reach for a corporate bailout, but now’s the opportunity to move away from oil extraction and build a rational system of clean energy.

"If we can bail out large corporations, we can make sure that everyone in this country has enough income to pay for the basic necessities of life."

Research begins to pick apart the mechanisms behind a deadly COVID-19 complication

I started reporting on Tara Reade’s story a year ago. Here’s what I found, and where I’m stuck.

It embeds into official U.S. policy a shockingly extremist view of law enforcement as the enemy of the American people

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