Let’s build a world in which the torture of Christa Pike — or anyone — is unthinkable.

The arrival of government-operated autonomous police robots does not look like predictions in science fiction movies. An army of robots with gun arms is not kicking down your door to arrest you. Inste...

About 26,500 New Yorkers have lost food benefits under new federal work requirements, raising concerns about the financial toll on neighborhood bodegas.

Lisa Jo Chamberlin’s co-defendant confessed to coercing her into their crime. Will that be enough to stop her execution?

Organizer Chris Dixon discusses how we can sustain our collective efforts over years of social and political struggle.

LEO Technologies launched Verus Voice AI for prison calls. Its press release and its own product page tell two different stories.

How a literary prize judged by incarcerated readers builds connection across prison walls and nurtures imagination in the face of oppression.

Authorities are taking unprecedented steps to charge protesters in a sleepy Vermont town that hosts an ICE surveillance and targeting center.

A conversation with the author about her new novel, the experience of having a mother in prison, and the artist’s role in documenting atrocities.

The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida.

Rants, Musings and More

Thanks to books deconstructing Western mass media, from Manufacturing Consent to How to Sell a Genocide, we on the US left are getting pretty good at

Convention 2026 planning tools.

Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.

At 18, Christa Pike was sentenced to death for murder. What if the jury knew she had suffered years of sexual abuse as a child?

A summer inside our city's thriving, political, increasingly weird puppet underground.

Sex worker gun clubs are popping up across the country as a form of self-defense and community protection.

Suddenly, prison mail is expensive, typed, mass-surveilled by private corporations, and held indefinitely by the carceral state.