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Police and the License to Kill

MATTHEW D. LASSITER Boston Review
Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it reveals why most of today’s proposals to make police more accountable are bound to fail, and how we can do better.

Save the Post Office

Dennis O’Neil Labor Notes
The Postmaster General’s New Attack on the Mail is a Fig Leaf for Privatization.

Under Corporate Skies

Al Young AfroPoets
“Where profit ignites,” writes the late poet Al Young, “lives go out.”

Cicadas Have an Existential Problem

Ed Yong The Atlantic
Cicadas, like us, have come to rely on an interconnected ecosystem of their own creation that becomes more unwieldy and fragile with time, and that they can barely control.