Historian Stuart Schrader on the untold history of police unions—and how they helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.

It is spring in Palestine, and Eid al-Fitr has just passed. It’s customary to buy new clothes for the feast, but with people desperately short of funds, this tradition was out of reach for most this ...

When the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran started on February 28, I didn’t hear from my oldest friend, an educator who runs an art center in Tehran, for eight long days. Rahaa, as I’ll call her here, is in ...

In April 2024, six months into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and already with 34,000 Palestinians dead, German police forcibly shut down the Palestine Congress, a solidarity and human rights ...

This essay appears in print in The Politics of Care. In the final chapter, “The Space Traders,” of his 1992 book Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Persistence of Racism, Derrick Bell, Harvard Law ...

I had been staring at his medical records for a couple of hours, reminding myself of the details of the case. Back in 2021, I wrote a “County of Origin Expert Affidavit” for a man in Immigration and ...