Prayer circles, rubber bullets, and a buffalo stampede at the major protest in rural North Dakota. By Antonia Juhasz.

For Twitter, half a billion tweets a day are sellable data. For despots, they’re a great way to hunt dissidents. By Benjamin Elgin and Peter Robison. [Autoplay]

"[F]or having the courage to draw this line in the sands of time and place, an untold number of these Indigenous heroes are now being strip-searched, caged, left naked in cells, hooded, and water-boarded (all these practices fall under the category of torture in the U.S. Army Manual) by militarized white police, heirs of those who committed the North American genocide." By Paul Street.

Comey's announcement stunned the country, but it also raises some serious Fourth Amendment questions. By Orin Kerr.

TigerSwan is one of several security firms under investigation for its work guarding the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota while potentially without a permit. By Steve Horn.

Donna Murch's "Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California," published in 2010 by UNC Press, traces the longer origins of the BPP in southern migration and struggles at public universities in California. Below we present an excerpt from the book...

Almost exactly 20 years ago, President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill creating an interstate agreement for emergency management. That inconspicuous law has opened the door for the current flood of out-of-state law enforcement agents present at the continuing protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline... By Steve Horn.

Armed soldiers and law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear on Thursday began arresting protesters who had set up a camp on private land to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. By James MacPherson and Blake Nicholson.

She had it easy at first, because she wasn’t one of the wives. By Shawn Wen.

A short historical account and background of the often violent conflict between workers and employers in West Virginia's mines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, compiled by the West Virginia State Archives.

ACLU revealed Tuesday that Facebook, Twitter and Instagram gave ‘special access’ to Geofeedia, a controversial social media monitoring company. By Sam Levin. (Oct. 11, 2016 )

An oral history of how everything went to hell in December 1969. Fred Hampton was killed by the police, the hippie spirit died at Altamont, and the Weathermen went underground. By Clara Bingham.

Madeleine Dobie considers what it is that draws national security agencies to “The Battle of Algiers.”

“I don’t wanna do this shit no more.” By Albert Samaha.

Now hear the uncensored material. By Amber Frost.

“My bosses never had a complaint — to the contrary, I received nothing but praise. What I didn’t know, and my editors didn’t know to tell me, was that the political cartoonist of The Los Angeles Times isn’t allowed to criticize the police. I wish I’d been informed…” By Ted Rall. (Aug. 10, 2016)

Obama has now been at war longer than any other American president, and has overseen the use of military force in seven countries—Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia. In the latter four countries, virtually all the force has come in the form of unmanned drones executing suspected terrorists said to be linked to al-Qaeda or its “associated forces.” That an antiwar president has found the drone so tempting ought to be a warning sign. By David Cole.

Once again, corporate and government interests win; the environment loses. By Jason Koebler.

With Russia already meddling in 2016, a ragtag group of obsessive tech experts is warning that stealing the ultimate prize—victory on Nov. 8—would be child’s play. By Ben Wofford.

In England and the United States, the police were invented within the space of just a few decades — roughly from 1825 to 1855. The new institution was not a response to an increase in crime... By David Whitehouse. (Dec. 7, 2014)