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This New Yorker story about a fatal police shooting could have seemed like “same old, same old.” After all, I’ve consumed (and sometimes written) countless death-by-cop sagas during my 50 years as a journalist. But Rachel Aviv’s narrative stands out...

How Vladimir Putin’s desperate hold on power is fuelling the next revolution by Michael Petrou Illustration by Adrian Lee I. In late April, the forests surrounding Pikalyovo, an industrial city 250 km east of St. Petersburg, are still blanketed...

From Ian: The last acceptable hatred All the major Swedish news outlets reported this week that the city of Malmo is investing in a comprehensive educational effort, initiated by the Jewish community, aimed at countering the rise in anti-Semitism that...

For days before Thanksgiving, 2009, Santa Ana winds had been blowing up ash and dust from the massive Station Fire that recently burned north of Los Angeles. The scorching, high-pressure weather system seemed a suitable climate for L.A.’s financial...

Here in Oakland, a lot of us like some crazy fun with our education, or some social value with our recreation. We can have it both ways here, and this week we do: readings of really interesting books filled with political and personal tension, fun public...