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- Akela Lacy. 2025. If protesting Tesla is domestic terrorism, then what demonstration against Musk isn’t? March 13, The Intercept.
- Brian Mann. 2025. ‘Homegrowns are next:’ Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad. April 16, npr.org.
- 2025. As Trump broadens crackdown, focus expands to legal immigrants and tourists. March 21, New York Times (pdf).
- Sarah Betancourt. 2025. Green card holder from New Hampshire ‘interrogated’ at Logan Airport, detained. March 16, wgbh.com.
- Edward Markey, Jim McGover,
- 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
- 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)
- Carolyn Y. Johnson, Scott Dance and Joel Achenbach. 2025. Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders. February 4, Washington Post. (the words: Advocacy, Antiracist, Barrier, Biases, Cultural relevance, Disability, Diverse backgrounds, Diversity, Ethnicity, Excluded, Exclusion, Equity, Female, Gender, Hate speech, Historically, Implicit bias, Inclusion, Inclusive, Inequities, Institutional, Intersectional, Male dominated, Marginalized, Minority, Multicultural, Oppression, Polarization, Racially, Segregation, Socioeconomic, Systemic, Trauma, Underrepresented, Underserved, Victims, Women)
- 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)
- 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.
