Support For Defunding The Police Department Is Growing. Here’s Why It’s Not A Silver Bullet.

    By SIMONE WEICHSELBAUM and NICOLE LEWIS Minneapolis city council members made an historic pledge over the weekend when they vowed to dismantle the local police department and shift money to community-based strategies. The pledge to develop a new system of public safety— supported by a veto-proof majority — […]

Black Lives Matter Is Winning

By Farhad Manjoo     It’s wondrous, isn’t it, how the people just keep coming out? Day after day, night after night, in dozens of cities, braving a deadly virus and brutal retaliation, they continue to pack the streets in uncountable numbers, demanding equality and […]

Musicians Playing Through the Lockdown, to One Listener at a Time

    By Patrick Kingsley Photographs by Laetitia Vancon Patrick Kingsley, an international correspondent, and Laetitia Vancon, a photojournalist, are driving more than 3,700 miles to explore the reopening of the European continent after coronavirus lockdowns. Read all their dispatches. STUTTGART, Germany — Atop a hill beside a […]