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Ron Davis was a cop for nearly thirty years before working at the Department of Justice. He knows how hard it is to reform an institution with a history of racial repression.

A Minneapolis activist group says that the police department, whose history is rooted in racial repression, cannot simply be reformed; it has to be defunded.

In the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a legal scholar sees a fatal confusion of citizen’s arrest, stand-your-ground law, and racial profiling. 

Larissa MacFarquhar talks with a would-be participant in a human-challenge trial, in which trial subjects are–hypothetically—infected with SARS-CoV2 to test a potential vaccine.

The novelist Edwidge Danticat says COVID-19 is changing the lives of Haitians, both on the island and in the U.S.

With the pandemic putting inmates—who cannot maintain social distance—as well as corrections workers in danger, the movement for decarceration suddenly seems politically possible.

The story of an Instagram Live party that attracted hundreds of thousands of people—including Rihanna, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Drake.

Jon Lee Anderson reports on Jair Bolsonaro’s push to allow commercial mining on protected lands, and the harm it will do to Brazil’s indigenous groups. 

Briana Younger talks with the bassist and producer who helped make the Kendrick Lamar album “To Pimp a Butterfly.”

Outrageous, raunchy, and empowered, the star of “Foxy Brown” helped change the way black lives were presented onscreen.

A New Yorker staffer picks three things she can’t stop thinking about.

Kai Wright sits down with two advocates of prison abolition to discuss the why and the how of ‘decarceration.’

A few months ago, Jonathan was released from prison. Our producer shadowed him to learn what emancipation feels like after two decades of being locked up.

In 2010, Michelle Alexander’s best-selling book spelled out how mass incarceration harms communities of color. Assessing its impact, she looks back, and forward, with David Remnick.

HBO’s “Game of Thrones” made him a superstar; now Dinklage can return to the stage.

The chef at one of Los Angeles’s best restaurants on how to build a woman-friendly kitchen.

The screenwriter’s new film is about a first date that goes terribly wrong when a police officer is accidentally shot. “We create the heroes we need,” Waithe tells Jelani Cobb.

A radio personality describes his struggles, and the links between racism and stress.  

The New Yorker food correspondent shares three current food-world favorites with David Remnick—and brings samples.

Pete Buttigieg is positioning himself as the moderate to watch for in the Democratic race. Can he overcome his lack of support from black voters?