Defund The Police

Why do Ben & Jerry’s want to defund the police?

16 April 2021 12:27 am

The radicalisation of the Ben & Jerry’s PR department has been one of the stranger spectacles of recent years. After…

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Who deserves blame for the Democrats’ lost House seats?

17 November 2020 7:31 am

Democratic joy at defeating Donald Trump was partially dulled by the simultaneous diminishment of the party’s House majority. As of…

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Trump redefines the race

28 August 2020 10:47 pm

Helplessness and passivity were the defining themes of the Democratic convention last week. The American people are unable to overcome…

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Hyperbole radicalism and the politics of exaggeration

17 August 2020 11:17 pm

‘All I want for Christmas is White genocide.’ So remarked George Ciccariello-Maher, then professor of politics and global studies at…

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Does Seattle deserve better than Carmen Best?

13 August 2020 11:00 am

Seattle So the revolution devours its children. On Tuesday, Seattle’s police chief Carmen Best announced her retirement just hours after…

Protesters hold up signs on June 3, 2020

‘Defund the police’ just means ‘I’m rich’

7 July 2020 5:50 am

Walk along the leafy streets of any neighborhood in so-called ‘brownstone Brooklyn’, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, and you’ll…

Protests Continue In Philadelphia In Response To Death Of George Floyd In Minneapolis

College elites and defunding the police

6 July 2020 8:54 am

In the first weeks of my freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania, I heard the phrase ‘abolish the police’…

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Don’t defund the police: reform them

20 June 2020 2:39 am

‘Nothing works if public space is unsafe,’ says the respected urban sociologist Patrick Sharkey. The ‘Defund the Police’ initiative demands…

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The Biden factor is difficult to calculate

17 June 2020 1:18 am

The final stage of the election campaign and its result will depend on four factors: management of the balance between…

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Defend the police

16 June 2020 8:02 pm

President Trump is signing an executive order today on police reform. The order, while relatively toothless, does one important thing:…

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Madness in Minneapolis

11 June 2020 5:26 am

My City Council in Minneapolis has decided to de-something the police. Defend? Nah. Defund. But by ‘defund’, they don’t mean…

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EXCLUSIVE: Dan Bongino’s prepared testimony on police brutality

10 June 2020 11:58 pm

Dan Bongino, a conservative commentator and former Secret Service agent, will testify Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on…