Jim Justice, the billionaire governor of West Virginia, excused himself from a briefing on the state’s Covid-19 response yesterday to take a call from President Donald Trump. Upon returning from…
All four living former U.S. presidents have now expressed public support for the protests calling for justice that have erupted across America in the wake of George Floyd's death. However,…
The senators observed nearly nine minutes of silence to honor George Floyd and others killed by police brutality. Senate Democrats gathered on Thursday for a moment of silence to honor…
Not quite two weeks after the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died after a now-former Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck, it’s already clear that…
Manuel Ellis of Tacoma, Wash., died in part as a result of how he was restrained, according to the medical examiner, who concluded that his death was a homicide. A…
Retired Marine Gen. John Allen pinpointed the exact moment he believes the United States began its slide “into illiberalism.” In a column for Foreign Policy this week, the retired four-star general…
As Black Lives Matter protests grow across the nation over policing, the deep economic inequalities that African Americans face are coming to the forefront. In many ways, the gap between…
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A special prosecutor for the state of Georgia said Thursday that evidence in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery shows the young black man was repeatedly boxed…
A 22-year-old man was in a half-kneeling position when an officer in a Bay Area city fatally shot him through a police vehicle's windshield, police said Wednesday. Sean Monterrosa, 22,…
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken hen the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a…