(the ‘police state’ category includes the ‘thought police’)

• Akela Lacy. 2025. If protesting Tesla is domestic terrorism, then what demonstration against Musk isn’t? March 13, The Intercept.
• Sophia Nguyen and Herb Scribner. 2025. Trump fires Library of Congress Chief Carla Hayden, citing DEI. May 9, Washington Post. (pdf) 
• Peter Baker. 2025. In assault on free speech, Trump targets speech he hates. September 21, New York Times.
• Brian Mann. 2025. ‘Homegrowns are next:’ Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad. April 16, npr.org.
• Charles Thrush. 2025. Feds tell faith leaders ‘No more prayer’ outside Broadview facility. November 8, Block Club Chicago. 
• Bora Erden. 2025. How to make sense of federal forces on the streets. October 24, New York Times.
• Will Oremus and Ben Brasch. 2025. A Tennessee man posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail. October 31, Washington Post.
• Devlin Barrett. 2025. Trump orders broad effort to root out groups he says organize political violence. September 25, New York Times.
• Anna Griffin. 2025. Judge blocks Trump’s deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore. October 5, New York Times.
• Jesus Jiménez, Orlando Mayorquín, Mimi Dwyer, Ana Facio-Krajcer and Hamed Aleaziz. 2025. Trump administration says National Guard will be deployed to LA protests. June 7, New York Times. (pdf)
• Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Tyler Pager and Hamed Aleaziz. 2025. As Trump broadens crackdown, focus expands to legal immigrants and tourists. March 21, New York Times (pdf).
• Claire Considine. 2025. Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest. July 25, The Guardian.
• Michael Schmidt. 2025. Search of Bolton’s home shows uneasy mix of retribution and law enforcement. August 22, New York Times.
• Associated Press. 2025. Three republican-led states to send hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington. August 17, npr.org.
• Charlie Savage. 2025. The legal issues surrounding Trump’s plan to use troops to suppress protests. June 8, New York Times. (pdf)
• Margot Sanger-Katz, Andrew Duehren, Brad Plumer, Tony Romm and Catie Edmondson. 2025. Here’s what’s in the big domestic policy bill to deliver Trump’s agenda. March 20, New York Times. (pdf)
• Casey Parks. 2025. Is Portland ‘war-ravaged’ as Trump claims? Here’s what residents say. September 27, Washington Post. 
• Glenn Thrush. 2025. Trump’s flurry of pardons signals a wholesale effort to redefine crime. May 29, New York Times.  (pdf)
• Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein, Azi Paybarah and Latesha Beachum. 2025. FBI searches home and office of former Trump national security adviser John Bolton. August 22, New York Times.
• José Olivares. 2025. US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants. June 4, The Guardian. 
• Jacey Fortin, Devlin Barrett and Ernesto Londoño. 2025. Trump administration pulls back from local police oversight across the US. March 21, New York Times. (pdf)
• Sarah Betancourt. 2025. Green card holder from New Hampshire ‘interrogated’ at Logan Airport, detained. March 16, wgbh.com.
• Nick Turse and Jonah Valdez. 2025. Trump is building a global gulag for immigrants captured by ICE. May 15, The Intercept. 
• Edward Markey, Jim McGover, Ayanna Pressley. 2025. We visited Rumeysa Ozturk in detention. What we saw was a warning to us all. April 25, New York Times. (pdf)
• Masha Gessen. 2025. Unmarked vans. Secret lists. Public denunciations. Our police state has arrived. April 2, New York Times. (pdf)
• Karen Yourish, Annie Daniel, Saurabh Datar, Isaac White and Lazaro Gamio. 2025. These words are disappearing in the new administration. March 7, New York Times. (pdf)
• Devlin Barrett. 2025. Orders to investigate Columbia protesters raised alarms in Justice Dept. May 1, New York Times. (pdf)
• Sarah Stillman. 2025. Starved in jail. April 14, New Yorker Magazine. (pdf)
• Brandon Drenon. 2025. Why has Trump revoked hundreds of international student visas? April 9, BBC.
• Aishvarya Kavi. 2025. At US Institute of Peace, it’s war when Musk’s team arrives. March 16, New York Times. (pdf)
• Neil Vigdor. 2025. Canadian who was in an ‘American Pie’ video says ICE held her for 12 days. March 18, New York Times. (pdf)
• Yolan Kanno-Youngs. 2025. US and El Salvador won’t return wrongly deported man. April 14, New York Times. (pdf)
• Alan Feuer, Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman and Devlin Barrett. 2025. Trump demands that Bondi move ‘now’ to prosecute foes. September 20, New York Times.
• Sonia Rao. 2025. Pritzker says federal agents are trying to make Chicago a ‘war zone.’ October 5, New York Times.
• Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Hamed Aleaziz. 2025. How a Columbia student fled to Canada after ICE came looking for her. March 15, New York Times. (pdf)
• David French. 2025. Don’t fool yourself into thinking it will stop with Columbia. March 16, New York Times.
• Jasmine Mooney. 2025. I am the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped. March 19, The Guardian
• Perry Stein. 2025. DOGE sought to assign a team to an independent non-profit group. April 15, Washington Post. (pdf)
• 2025. Bondi calls Tesla vandalism ‘domestic terrorism,’ promising steep consequences. March 18, New York Times. (pdf)
• John Eligon and Shawn Hubler. 2021. Throughout trial over George Floyd’s death, killings by police mount. April 19, New York Times. (pdf)
• Michael Schmidt. 2025. Search of Bolton’s home shows uneasy mix of retribution and law enforcement. August 22, New York Times. 
• Chai Dingari, Adam Westbrook, Brendan Miller. 2021. ‘I’m speechless‘: We asked law enforcement officers from around the world how American policing looks from abroad. May 12, New York Times.
• Dina Temple-Raston. 2020. Military policy leaders weighed deploying ‘heat ray’ against D.C. protesters. Sept 16, npr.org.
• Ray Sanchez. 2020. Killings by police, like the Breonna Taylor case, rarely end in trials or convictions. Sept 26, CNN.
• Kevin Johnson. 2017. Trump expected to lift ban on military gear to local police forces. Aug 27, USA Today.
• Phillip Atiba Goff. 2020. The dystopian police state the Trump Administration wants. Oct 20, New York Times. (pdf)
• Mark Hosenball. 2020. U.S. Homeland Security confirms three units sent paramilitary officers to Portland. July 21, Reuters. (pdf)
• Richard Oppel Jr. 2019. These prosecutors promised change. Their power is being stripped away. Nov 25, New York Times. (pdf)
• Jonathan Mummolo. 2018. Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime, but may harm police reputation. Aug 20, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
• Charles Pierce. 2020. The authoritarian operation in Portland is only a dress rehearsal. July 17, Esquire. (pdf)
• Peter Wagner and Bernadette Rabuy. 2017. Mass incarceration: The whole pie. Mar 14, Prison Policy Initiative.
• Micah Lee and Alice Sperry. 2018. Police broke into Chelsea Manning’s home with guns drawn–in a ‘wellness check.’ June 5, The Intercept.
• David Cay Johnston. 2017. Trump’s budget shows how he is building a police state. July 19, alternet.org. (pdf)
• Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux. 2018. Jeff Sessions is trying to take criminal justice back to the 1990s. Feb 7, fivethirtyeight.com.
• Nasim Chatha. 2017. How the US imposes the worst of its prison paradigm abroad. July 22, Truth-out.
• Samantha Michaels. 2018. Leaked memo reveals Trump’s gift to private prison companies. Jan 30, Mother Jones.
• Dexter Filkins. 2016. ‘Do not resist’ and the crisis of police militarization. May 13, New Yorker. (pdf)
• Glenn Greenwald. 2018. Citing U.S. prison conditions, British appeals court refuses to extradite accused hacker Lauri Love to the U.S. Feb 6, The Intercept.
• John Raphling. 2017. Trump’s real policies echo rant to cops: Administration moving fast to roll back police accountability. Aug 3, Human Rights Watch.
• The Marshall Project. 2017. Police militarization: A curated collection of links. themarshallproject.org.
• Ryan Welch and Jack Mewhirter. 2017. Does military equipment lead police officers to be more violent? We did the research. June 30, Washington Post. (pdf)
• Jelani Cobb. 2017. Militarizing the minds of police officers. June 29, New Yorker Magazine. (pdf)
• Mapping Police Violence. 2020. Police violence map. mappingpoliceviolence.org.
• Bryan Schatz. 2017. ‘Are you prepared to kill somebody?’ A day with one of America’s most popular police trainers (the dark vision of ‘killology’ expert Dave Grossman). March/April, Mother Jones.
• Alleen Brown. 2018. Ohio and Iowa are the latest of eight states to consider anti-protest bills aimed at pipeline opponents. Feb 2, The Intercept.
• Dan Lamothe. 2016. This is the military-style equipment used to respond to the attack in Orlando. June 13, Washington Post.
• John Payne. 2016. When SWAT raids are routine: A conversation with the director of Do Not Resist. Dec 15, The American Conservative.
• Jennifer Bjorhus. 2016. The officer who shot Castile attended ‘bulletproof warrior’ training. July 14, startribune.com.
• Ryan Devereaux. 2016. ‘Do Not Resist‘: The police militarization documentary everyone should see. Oct 12, The Intercept.
• New York Times. 2015. Mapping the spread of the military’s surplus gear. Aug 15, New York Times.
• Clyde Haberman. 2014. The rise of the SWAT team in American policing. Sept 8, New York Times.
• Radley Balko. 2015. This week in excessive force. May 28, Washington Post.
• Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2017. The black family in the age of mass incarceration. October, The Atlantic.
• Radley Balko. 2016. ‘Do Not Resist’: A chilling look at the normalization of warrior cops. Sept 30, Washington Post.
• Robert Mackey. 2016. Images of militarized police in Baton Rouge draw global attention. Jul 11, The Intercept.
• Zoe Carpenter. 2016. Militarized police are cracking down on Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters. Oct 26, The Nation.
• Eliav Lieblich and Adam Shinar. 2017. Police militarization in the Trump era. Feb 1, JustSecurity.org.
• Dexter Filkins. 2016. ‘Do not resist’ and the crisis of police militarization. May 13, New Yorker.
• April Glaser. 2016. If you go near the Super Bowl, you will be surveilled hard. Jan 16, Wired.com.
• Shane Bauer. 2014. The making of the warrior cop. Oct 23, motherjones.com.
• Mother Jones. 2014. Photos: Inside Urban Shield, the convention for warrior cops. Sept 5, motherjones.com.
• Taylor Wofford. 2014. How America’s police became an army: The 1033 Program. Aug 13, Newsweek.
• Andrew Jerell Jones. 2014. Cameras aren’t a miracle cure for police brutality. Dec 3, The Intercept.
• Matt Apuzzo. 2014. War gear flows to police departments. June 8, NY Times.
• D.K. 2014. Armed police: Trigger happy. Aug 15, The Economist.
• Matt Apuzzo. 2014. Cleveland police cited for abuse by Justice Department. Dec 4, NY Times.
• The Economist. 2014. Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers? Mar 20.
• Public Radio International. 2014. In 2013 British Police fired guns: 3 times. Aug 24, PRI.
• Chelsea Parsons. 2014. Guns to surpass car accidents as leading cause of death among young people. Feb 23, Think Progress.
• Jodie Gummow. 2013. Police destroy organic farm in massive SWAT team raid. Aug 16, Alternet.org.
• Henry Giroux. 2013. Lockdown, USA: Lessons from the Boston Marathon manhunt. May 6, Truth-out.org.
• Stephan Salisbury. 2012. How to fund an American police state. March 4, TomDispatch.com.
• Arthur Rizer and Joseph Hartman. 2011. How the war on terror has militarized the police. Nov 7, The Atlantic.
• Sal Gentile. 2011. Are we becoming a police state? Five things that have civil liberties advocates nervous. Dec 7, PBS.org.
• David Edwards and Muriel Kane. 2009. 60 minutes: Pentagon’s raygun demonstrated on mock protesters. June 2, RawStory.