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Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.
The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.
Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.
Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.
Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.
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