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By Libero Della Piana   Libero Della Piana As a first-year student at Brown University, twenty-five years ago, I was detained by campus security for trespassing. In my own dorm….

By Laila Lalami Flowers are put in a window shattered by a bullet as Paris mourns the victims of a terrorist attack. (Photo: AP/Peter Dejong) What happened in Paris on…

Denis Balibouse / Reuters By Conor Friedersdorf As the terrorist attack against Paris unfolded Friday, a moment that Americans experienced in the strange semi-togetherness of social media, something prompted the…

By Christina Cauterucci Students staged a sit-in outside the president’s office in Healy Hall at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. At the University of Missouri, students have ousted their president…

By John Nichols Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders waves as he marches with supporters in the Labor Day parade. (AP Photo / Jim Cole) Samuel Gompers, the immigrant cigar…

By Joshua Holland The New York City Police Academy’s graduation ceremony. (Reuters / Carlo Allegri) Race dominated the coverage of the 2014 shooting of John Crawford. Crawford was a young…

By Art Heitzer and Marjorie Cohn President Barack Obama during a bilateral meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro during the United Nations General Assembly, September 29, 2015., Doug Mills /…

By Jeet Heer The mystery of Ben Carson is that he’s a startlingly intelligent man with an inspiring life story who repeatedly makes unhinged assertions that are divorced from reality—and…

Puff Daddy Feels the US Government Owes the Black Community By: Yesha Callahan Sean Combs on New York radio station Hot 97 Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs marked his birthday last…

By Michelle Chen It wasn’t supposed to end this way. But this week America learned that the folks everyone thought had it better than most are suffering a fate just…