History This simple timeline puts the long, long history of slavery in perspective Caroline Siede

Business Ben & Jerry's on Black Lives Matter and the police killing of George Floyd: We Must Dismantle White Supremacy Xeni Jardin

george floyd 'A riot is the language of the unheard.' —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Xeni Jardin

law Breasts are 'lewdness', Utah judge rules in humiliation for 'topless at home' mom Xeni Jardin

surveillance FBI honors MLK Jr. Day by celebrating man they gaslit, surveilled, tried to drive to suicide Thom Dunn

class war Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street Cory Doctorow

web theory Contract for the Web: Tim Berners-Lee calls on world governments (and us all) to make the web a force for good Cory Doctorow

china Massive leak of Chinese government documents reveal the "no mercy" plan for Muslims in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

race White supremacists record video at the new, bulletproof Emmett Till memorial sign Cory Doctorow

class war The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with "moral whims" Cory Doctorow

law Identity theft's newest target: your face Albert Fox Cahn

christ what an asshole "The Tragedy of the Commons": how ecofascism was smuggled into mainstream thought Cory Doctorow

racism Frat boys who posed with rifles in front of a shot-up civil rights memorial kicked out of frat Mark Frauenfelder

elections After Istanbul voters rejected Turkish strongman Erdogan, he made them vote again — and lost by the biggest landslide in 35 years Cory Doctorow

LGBTQ Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans Cory Doctorow

racism Jewish human rights scholar: yes, America has built concentration camps Cory Doctorow

elections Joe Biden repeatedly claimed to have marched for civil rights. He didn't. Cory Doctorow

uk The Chinafication of the internet continues as the UK proposes blocking any service that hosts "illegal" or "harmful" material Cory Doctorow

nazis Improbably, a Black activist is now the owner and leader of the "National Socialist Movement," which he is turning into an anti-racist group Cory Doctorow

privacy New York City's new rideshare regs put Big Brother in backseat, give GPS tracking a whole new meaning Albert Fox Cahn