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Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Michael Gould-Wartofsky is a writer, ethnographer and human rights activist and a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University. He is the author of "The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement" and "American Inquisitions" (forthcoming in 2025), and has written for the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Gizmodo, Jacobin, Mother Jones and the Nation. Read more at his website.

Two demonstrators march with a US flag in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 23, 2014 to protest the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)

The makings of an American inquisition

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Photos of Monterrious Harris with bruises and scars are displayed on a table at his attorneys' office on January 31, 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee. Harris was beaten by some of the same Memphis police officers from the Scorpion Unit that beat Tyre Nichols. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Welcome to the predator state: How elite police units like Memphis’ “Scorpion” hunt humans

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Baltimore is the new Iraq: How America’s war in the Middle East came home

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This is not a democracy: How the 1 percent rigged the game

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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

You call this immigration reform?

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Demonstrators hold signs during a march to the front of the Sanford Police Department for Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, March 31, 2012 (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

America’s ugly history of vigilante justice

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Big Brother on campus

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