Background Briefing

J.W. Mason / Kate McElwee / Malcolm Harris

Trump’s Self-Inflicted Wound on Our Economy, as Overseas Investors Retreat From Treasuries and the Dollar
An Update From Rome on the Conclave with Cardinals From the Global South in the Mix for a New Pope
On This Earth Day, Strategies for Collective Political Action to Make Climate Change the Unifying Crisis of Our Time


Law & Disorder

‘Copaganda’: Police & Media Manipulate Perceptions of Safety; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Martin Lynch

‘Copaganda’ is propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media that stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society’s responses to it. Every day, mass media manipulates our perception of what keeps us safe. The result is more and more authoritarian state repression, more inequality, and huge profits for the massive public and private punishment … Continued