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How Gentrification Is Killing US Cities and Black Lives
“How to Kill a City” exposes how gentrification monetizes the loss and destruction of Black communities.
From Drone Strikes to MOAB: The Strategically Silenced
US bombings and strikes in Afghanistan and elsewhere reap profits from the erasure and destruction of Muslim bodies.
Global Capitalist Crisis and Trump’s War Drive
Global inequalities can only be sustained by more repressive and ubiquitous systems of social control and repression.
Was a Police Report Altered to Convict a Man for Murder? Inside a Woman’s Quest to Free Her Brother
Jonathan Edelstein, one of the lawyers involved, and with Jennifer Gonnerman, a staff writer for The New Yorker discuss the mystery of the altered report.
Massachusetts to Throw Out 21,000 Drug Convictions After State Chemist Tampers Evidence for Nine Years
In what may be the largest dismissal of wrongful convictions in US history, Massachusetts will throw out 21,587 criminal drug cases.
#WageLove: Water Activists Build a Global Movement
Civil rights lawyer Alice Jennings is pushing the courts to see clean water in Detroit and Flint as a human rights issue.
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Onward, Christian Soldiers!
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Times They Aren’t A-Changing
Where Your Dollars Are Going: Why Some Antiwar Activists Are Withholding Taxes
Antiwar activists fed up of seeing 23 percent of their income taxes go toward US warmongering are refusing to pay.
Accidents Spew Oil and Gas Pollution in Alaska as Trump Looks to Expand Arctic Drilling
Oil and gas drillers have struggled to contain recent oil and gas spills in Alaska.