( Correction : This story originally misstated the role of the National Guard in responding to the protests. While Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) has authorized the Guard to deploy,…
America is unable to contain the surging pandemic because we refuse to reckon with the racial inequities that drive it. The concentration of over 223,000 US Covid-19 casualties in vulnerable…
Robert Roth on an anti-racist approach to high-school history Editor’s Note: In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 years of experience. In recent years, that number is closer to…
Jennifer McLeggan said her neighbors told her she could be "erased." When she called police in her suburban New York town, she said they told her to stop calling 911.…
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday freedom of expression should stop if it offends more than 1.5 billion people, following the display of images in France…
A rural North Carolina county is working to turn anger over police brutality into lasting change. On a sunny October afternoon, one day before the start of early voting, a…
A strike is under way in Poland by women opposed to a court ruling that introduced a near-total ban on abortion in the mainly Catholic country. Crowds have protested in…
As the crackdown against dissenting voices under the notorious sedition laws intensify, the lives of those who dared speak up are torn apart. Author Kamalsy Najmal has not written since…
After a Chicago security guard asked two shoppers to put on coronavirus masks in his store, they allegedly punched him, pulled his hair and stabbed himmore than two dozen times.…
In recent years, Israeli and Palestinian rights groups have made a breakthrough discovery that may one day earn them a Nobel Prize in physics. Their researchers have observed that along…