police violence and mass policing in the u.s.

More recently, the repression by police, and especially the white shirts of the New York City police during the Occupy Wall Street movement, was effective in countering the push to begin to address the astronomical level of economic inequality that became pronounced as a result of the Great..

a singular disappointment « lrb blog

He had an extremely distinguished father, who among other things was the headmaster of New York’s Dalton School, an affluent private school on the Upper East Side, less rigorous academically than Horace Mann and doubtlessly far more fun, not least because it was co-ed. ..

‘he stabbed her to death’

Ed Wells spoke to CBS New York following the in court since his daughter, 16-year-old Madison Wells, murdered by 20-year-old Bryan Cordero-Castro September... I had conversation with him if he had ever hurt my baby girl what I would do to him, CBS New York... ..

the disasters of war

Kingston, one of the hubs of New York's Hudson Valley, has received good deal of attention these last few years, as New York City continues at ever-growing rate to function as domain of the wealthy. Holy Cross Santa Cruz, sits amid the large, ungentrified swath of..

is the women's march melting down?

The subject of New York Times profile Skolnik held powerful though not defined in the world of high-profile activist politics. �It�s very rare to have one person who everyone respects in entertainment, or in politics, or among the grass roots, � said Van Jones, in New..

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