There is overwhelming evidence of widespread civil-rights violations and unlawful brutality. Yet the movement's reflex is still to ignore or deny the problem. By Conor Friedersdorf

“We can’t wait for some deus ex machina to save our republic. Our republic is ours to save. Or better, it is only ours if we save it.”

Longtime voters are being turned away from the polls by Texas’ voter-ID law

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Once upon a time, a journalist never gave up a confidential source. When someone comes forward, anonymously, to inform the public, it’s better to risk time incarcerated than give them up. This ethical responsibility was also a practical and professional necessity...

In dueling MSNBC segments, Elizabeth Warren and President Obama call each other out over the president's massive Asia trade deal.

A study commissioned by Reveal has found that diesel and gas exhaust are the most significant contributors to the California Imperial Valley’s polluted air, most likely a combination of traffic and the lines of idling vehicles...

Lawmakers are trying once again to reform the controversial Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Business didn't always have so much power in Washington.

As a historic constitutional showdown over gay marriage looms this month at the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys are fighting over another bitterly disputed issue: their fees.

Why would anybody want to write another book about Albert Einstein? Why would anybody want to read it? These are two separate questions, but both of them have satisfactory answers. In spite of the large number of books already written about Einstein, there is still room for one more.

The secretive and anti-democratic way global trade rules are written often leads to one-sided rules that benefit powerful interest groups.

When civil war broke out in Syria, Ahmed Amri immediately thought about seeds. Specifically, 141,000 packets of them sitting in cold storage 19 miles south of Aleppo...

Complex, influential, and far more meaningful than the sum of its social justice-driven hashtags

Israel cannot maintain both its democracy and its occupation of the Palestinians. Day by day, it is choosing the latter.

The true story of one man’s quest to reform firefighting in America.

Nick Laird reviews “Citizen: An American Lyric,” by Claudia Rankine

Police have been setting up suspects with false testimony for decades. Is anyone going to believe them now when they tell the truth? By Frank Serpico

‘Scary Lucy’, a terrifying bust of Lucille Ball, is the latest in a long line of sculptures to offend good taste. We can only hope a young artist somewhere is vowing quietly to restore the craft to its former glory.

It's not about quid pro quo, it's about which way the wind blows.