Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama commuted Chelsea Manning’s remaining prison sentence. Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst turned…
A Rare Window Into Life at the Margins
In the United States, we are presently furnished more official data on how many people are arrested for…
Murder in the Bayou
A barn near Jennings, Louisiana. (Photo: polymerchemist/Flickr) Kristen Gary Lopez’s grandmother still kept the newspaper clippings stored in…
Pizzagate and the Long Legacy of the Fabricated Sex Slave
“Sex Slave Story Revealed to Be Fabricated.” This headline could have run in a recent Washington Post, atop…
AIDS and the House That Donald Trump Built
Some sunlight found its way between the metal police pens surrounding the new New York City AIDS Memorial,…
White Feminism Is Over If You Want It to Be
The eulogies, elegies, and requiems for white feminism have been written, and, this time, they’ve been penned by…
What’s Behind the Backpage Prosecution?
The men in orange jumpsuits standing in a cage in a California courtroom, the Associated Press and the…
Being Chelsea Manning
At the end of September, Chelsea Manning was finishing up a book on artificial intelligence and human life…
Bodies on the Streets
A body in the street can provoke a state of emergency, but not always. In Charlotte, it took…
Danger Predates the Internet
(Photo: esthervargasc/Flickr) “Online harassment” is no longer useful, or adequate, as a shorthand for the sustained campaigns of…