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With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.
Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.
Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.
Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.
The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.
David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.
King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.
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