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Ten Years of BDS: The Growing Movement Against the Occupation of Palestine
As BDS activists celebrate an increasing number of campaign victories, the movement's greatest successes may be the ones that don't make the headlines.
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The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex
In this excerpt from “Queer (In)Justice,” the authors reveal how police continue to facilitate the oppression of queer people and the criminalization of queer sexualities.
The End of Encryption? NSA and FBI Seek New Backdoors
The FBI and GCHQ have said they need access to encrypted communications to track criminals and terrorists.
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Rehumanizing Gaza
Palestinians in Gaza don't want your sympathy or anger; we want your action, writes author Laila El-Haddad.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on Rethinking Safety and Disability Justice
We need transformative justice: a community-based approach paired with creative cultural work to shift our narratives around harm.
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The Inequality Rainbow
It's still pretty crowded in this closet.
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Immigrant Youth to Presidential Candidates: Promises Will Not Win Our Support
Immigrant Youth to the Presidential Candidates: enough with promises, demand immigration changes today.
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Tantrums Unleashed After Rainbows Illuminate White House
The Supreme Court's affirmation of the right to marry and its rainbow striped afterglow unleashed conservative tantrums.
As Lawmakers Debate Removing Confederate Flag, Meet the Activist Who Took It Down
Bree Newsome took down the Confederate flag herself.
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Delivering on Housing Vouchers’ Potential to Give Families Real Choice
A quarter of a million children in voucher households live in high-poverty neighborhoods, despite the better options that a voucher should give them.