Stuart Schrader

As wartime labor shortages depleted police forces, and fear of crime grew, chiefs turned to new initiatives to strengthen and professionalize their officers.

The authoritarian tactics we’ve exported around the world in the name of national security are now being deployed in Portland.

The history of American policing shows that it was designed to eat up resources and subjugate the civilian population.

The pursuit of justice has been defined by a rote binary of punished in a cage versus unpunished and free.

The founders of modern policing quelled foreign uprisings. ‘Demilitarizing’ police will be harder than taking away their tanks.

Militarized police forces laid the groundwork for using troops to quell protest.

The US-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.

Dan Berger interviews Stuart Schrader about his new book on US imperialism.

How did it come to pass that a weapon banned for military use was deployed against asylum-seekers on the U.S. border?

How Charles Murray stopped worrying and learned to love racism.