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Since protests against police brutality erupted early this summer, videos of police violence have popped up from cities across the country. Cellphone footage showed Indianapolis police groping a woman then beating her to the ground when she pulled away, a mounted police officer in Houston trampling a woman with the horse he was riding, and

I felt that way in April, hearing a medical expert proclaim that the coronavirus is the worst public health crisis in America since the terrible influenza pandemic of 1918. And again in June, listening to a TV news reporter call it the worst public health crisis in a century. Am I missing something here? A

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As the ’80s progressed, Rodriguez watched the ranks slowly grow. Then one day he followed the rush of skaters down Sixth Avenue to Bowery, onto Broadway, past Park Row and City Hall, bombing the hill, finally veering right, into Brooklyn Banks. There, slightly inclined and cased in fine brick, was a block-long basin with a

For the last 13 weeks straight, more than a million Americans filed for unemployment benefits, for a staggering total of 45.7 million new claims. That’s five million more people than live in all of California. Despite that, there’s some unexpectedly bright news in the fight against poverty. According to a recent study from Columbia University,

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Over the past decade, J. Cole’s less-is-more approach has made him one of the most successful figures in hip-hop. He’s self-produced a significant portion of his discography. His last three albums, you may have heard, went platinum without any guest appearances—the impetus for a joke so worn out that J. Cole told this very magazine

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The Great Migration—the movement of millions of African Americans out of the South to regions of the United States where they might have more jobs, dignity, and physical safety; the grassroots revolt against Jim Crow—helped spread the holiday out of Texas and the surrounding states. In the early and mid-20th century, Black migrants from Texas,

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He credits fellow actor Matt McGorry, who was among the water protectors at Standing Rock, with first asking if he was an abolitionist—if he believed in abolishing police and prisons, and reimagining a world without them, centered around community care instead of punishment. “I was like, ‘Shit, I don’t know. What exactly would qualify me

The world first experienced COVID as a giant wave crashing across cities and regions. From Wuhan, to Northern Italy and Madrid, to New York City and San Francisco, the virus appeared and either spiked quickly or, less often, was quickly repelled by drastic action, as in Seoul, Hong Kong, and to a lesser degree San

Donald Trump has done little during his time in office to add to any sense of global peace and stability, but in 2019 he took a huge step in preventing the U.S. from starting one to three more pointless wars—he fired National Security Adviser John Bolton. A veteran now of four different Republican presidential administrations,

The past month has shone a long-overdue light on police brutality and, along with it, a whole range of alarming attitudes that seem to pervade police forces across the country. It’s not just the aggressive responses we’ve seen to nonviolent protest—officers are refusing to wear masks in the middle of a pandemic, as union leaders

The video has set off a wave of mockery on social media, with Twitter users dubbing the woman “Officer Karen,” and many questioning whether she should be allowed to carry a firearm if she has such a massive reaction to a botched breakfast order. Other people are rushing to her defense—specifically by doxxing the McDonald’s

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On Monday, three New York police officers were hospitalized after getting milkshakes from the burger chain Shake Shack while on duty. Almost immediately, the Police Benevolent Association, one of New York’s largest police unions, issued a statement—claiming that the three were poisoned with bleach and warning officers that they were in constant danger from citizens