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The Crackdown on Campus Protests is Just Beginning

At least a dozen colleges and universities have changed their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza. More may follow this summer.

The War on Protest

Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.

Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps

Public spending on private sweep contractors is soaring across the state – and unhoused people allege poor treatment

When the State Comes for Your Estate

Medicaid was designed to provide healthcare for the poorest Americans. But after death, their relatives can be socked with massive bills, as one Charlotte family learned.

How the U.S. Government Began Its Decade-Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement

Newly released documents show the FBI monitoring anti-Keystone protesters much earlier than previously known. Young Native activists were among its first targets.

Louisiana Law Gives Judges a Financial Incentive to Set High Bail and Secure Convictions

Years after a federal court declared the practice unconstitutional, judges continue to take money from criminal defendants. Some spend it on resort stays, luxury cars.

A Death at Walmart

Janikka Perry never made it home from her shift at the bakery of a supercenter in Arkansas. She was one of many Walmart workers who have been pressured to work through illness or pain, sometimes with devastating consequences.

The Eric Adams Table of Success

Mayor Adams has said that “all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.” Who’s at the table? How are they related? Why do they matter?

The Truth Behind The Experimental Therapy That Kids Say Starts With ‘Legalized Kidnapping’

Hundreds of children across the U.S. have been sent into controversial treatment programs where they’re cut off from the parent they trust and forced to live with the one they fear.