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The New Nuclear Reality

Robin Wright The New Yorker
Russia’s war in Ukraine has reawakened fears about the bomb—and endangered the principle of deterrence.

Police Cause Violence, Not the Other Way Around

Sonali Kolhatkar Independent Media Institute
What liberal politicians and the media refuse to acknowledge is that crime is linked to the failures of capitalism, not to the lack of police. Indeed, police are part of the problem, not the solution.

The Poor at the Crossroads

Liz Theoharis TomDispatch
The poor are what Dr. King once called “a new and unsettling force” capable of transforming “our complacent national life.”

Abolition Democracy’s Forgotten Founder

Robin D. G. Kelley Boston Review
While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.