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Facebook ad boycott, the threat of facial recognition tech, and more

Federal officials rapidly closed many complaints without issuing citations, raising new questions over government inaction

"The current moment should force us to confront the reality that, for too long, we have invested in the wrong priorities, the wrong tools, and the wrong solutions."

Truth commissions and reparations programs can effectively involve all perspectives in a conflict about longstanding political and economic grievances.

Taken all together these staffer memoirs offer a sense of something that no outsider can ever completely understand: what it’s like to live in Trump World.

Several local unions have moved to oust police unions, despite the federation's approach that collective bargaining can be used for police reform.

No national agency tracks the number of rape or domestic violence survivors imprisoned for self-defense. Similarly, no agency tracks the number of immigrant survivors who face detention and deportation for their self-defense actions.

No private, unelected entity should have the power over the economy that BlackRock has, without a legally enforceable fiduciary duty to wield it in the public interest.

Guardian analysis shows how organizations and officers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago work against reform.

"One of the most terrifying sounds on earth,” Palestinian American historian Rashid Khalidi recalls, is “the screeching roar of supersonic warplanes diving to attack.”