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Contrary to what Qualified Immunity’s defenders claim, it in no way helps police ‘do their jobs.’ It simply helps them get away with violating people’s civil rights.

Candidates who pledged to make Oakland work for everyone swept the November elections. They face two huge hurdles to making that real: proposals to close more schools, and to build a stadium plus luxury housing at the Port of Oakland.

Mega-agriculture is destroying the Corn Belt and the Central Valley, which the country’s food system depends on. Can midsize farms survive to save it?