Molly Crabapple
Nine Months After He Filmed Eric Garner's Killing, the Cops Are Trying to Put Ramsey Orta Behind Bars
The 23-year-old and his family have been harassed and arrested by NYPD officers—treatment they say is retaliation for Orta's documentation of their misconduct.
The Revolutionary, No-Bullshit Art of Ganzeer
The 32-year-old Egyptian artist's first New York solo show takes on police brutality and the crimes committed by the American government.
Special Prostitution Courts and the Myth of 'Rescuing' Sex Workers
In New York State's Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, prostitutes might be called victims, but they're still arrested, still handcuffed, and still held in cages.
Ferguson Shows How the Police Can Kill and Get Away with It
Police kill. They get away with it. They kill again. Eventually, you realize that this process is not a bug in the system but a feature.
In Defense of 'The Death of Klinghoffer' and Art That Takes Risks
We must leave space for irreverence, for non-didacticism, for hard questions, for the humanity of everyone.
We Must Risk Delight After a Summer Full of Monsters
Life contains everything: tear gas in Ferguson, books read on the grass, journalist James Foley's murder, dancing in New Orleans till sunrise blots the stars. We're meat—fragile and finite. But joy is survival.
Slaves of Happiness Island
What's often lost in the reporting of foreign labor in the United Arab Emirates are of the workers themselves.
Caught Between ISIS and Assad
The Syrian revolution did not start out sectarian. The Syrian war became so.
I Confronted Donald Trump in Dubai
Donald Trump's hair should not be. It sits on his head like a soufflé, both airy and solid, as improbable as any building to which he's given his name.
Photo Real: On Photoshop, Feminism, and Truth
While websites delight in publishing un-retouched outtakes of Lady Gaga, Lena Dunham, Faith Hill, and the like, it's not Photoshop that misleads us. Photos themselves are already lies.