News & Commentary

One year ago today, George Floyd was brutally murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sparking the largest protests in American history. What has changed in the year since Floyd’s murder and that uprising?

The only way to end police violence is to reduce the roles, resources, and power of police. Brooklyn Center Minnesota just provided a model for cities across America.

People in jails are often denied life-saving treatment for opioid addiction, with deadly results.

Social media companies often get content moderation wrong — both because of their vague and sweeping rules, and because they make mistakes when applying those rules, often through blunt automated detection systems. Perfect content moderation may be impossible, but the major platforms can do better.

A nationwide attempt to censor discussions of race in the classroom is underway. These bills don’t just set back progress in addressing systemic issues, they also rob young people of an inclusive education and blatantly suppress speech about race.

If states and cities rush into forcing remote employees to return to the office without confronting the ongoing realities of the pandemic, they could cause new setbacks to workplace equality that will take decades to overcome.

Our new report documents the critical need to repeal 1033, which allows the federal government to equip local police with military gear.

Reform of the 1033 program, which arms local police with military equipment and weapons, is not enough.

A robust international accountability mechanism would further support and complement, not undermine, efforts to dismantle systemic racism in the United States.