
You should also see the very well-sourced (and better-organized) post List of Atrocities committed by US authorities on Github.
Some recommended books:
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press, 2014)
- Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat - J. Sakai (1983)
Animals
The Black Man's Dog: The Social Context of Breed Specific Legislation - Ann Linder, Animal Law Review (2018)
Racism and the American Pit Bull - Yasmin Nair, Current Affairs (September 19, 2016)
Inside big beef's climate messaging machine: confuse, defend, and downplay - Joe Fassler, The Guardian (May 3, 2023)
Big Brother is watching you
"Warrior mindset" police training proliferated. Then, high-profile deaths put it under scrutiny. - Max Hauptman, The Washington Post (August 12, 2021)
I Learned to Think Like a "Warrior Cop" - Justin Peters, Slate (August 28, 2020)
A sexy outfit can get you arrested in Phoenix - especially if you're Black or trans - Katya Schwenk, Phoenix New Times (Jully 14, 2023)
The FBI's Persecution of Sidney Poitier - Jenn Dize, Rolling Stone (February 26, 2023)
How an FBI Informant Derailed Denver's BLM Movement - Kelly Weill, The Daily Beast (February 7, 2023)
How Angela Davis Ended Up on the FBI Most Wanted List - Antonio Mejías-Rentas, History (January 25, 2023)
The CIA's New Nord Stream Narrative Is Terrifying - Jeet Heer, The Nation (June 21, 2023)
How the CIA tortured its detainees - Oliver Laughland, The Guardian (May 20, 2015)
Teen Vogue's CIA writer and the anti-communist left - ∞ Genders 4 Black Communisms, Medium (April 24, 2020)
Capitalism
Inside big beef's climate messaging machine: confuse, defend, and downplay - Joe Fassler, The Guardian (May 3, 2023)
Inside TurboTax's 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free - Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel, ProPublica (October 17, 2019)
#ExxonKnew - last accessed August 14, 2023
REI workers face protracted union fight - Alina Selyukh, NPR (July 5, 2023)
As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School - Topher Sanders and Dan Schwartz, ProPublica (April 26, 2023)
Environment
#ExxonKnew - last accessed August 14, 2023
The Public Lands Restoration Apocalypse - Katie Fite, CounterPunch (January 15, 2021)
Defensiveness and Demagoguery in East Palestine - Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson with Matthew Cunningham-Cook, Citations Needed (March 1, 2023)
Fascism
"Unfriending" America: The Christian right is coming for the enemies of God - like you and me - Frederick Clarkson, The Nation (June 17, 2023)
Texas judge who doesn't want to perform gay marriage ceremonies hopes web designer's Supreme Court case helps her fight - Rebecca Schneid, The Texas Tribune (July 12, 2023)
US religious right at center of anti-LGBTQ+ message pushed around the world - Tom Perkins, The Guardian (July 9, 2023)
"Never apologize": How Moms for Liberty teaches its members to spin the media - Bianca Seward and Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News (July 1, 2023)
Moms for Liberty members have been linked to incidents of harassment and threats around the country - Olivia Little, Media Matters for America (April 11, 2023)
Moms for Liberty newsletter quotes Adolf Hitler, complains about being labeled "extremist" - Rex Huppke, USA Today (June 22, 2023)
This isn't the first time Moms for Liberty has quoted Hitler - Olivia Little, Media Matters for America (June 23, 2023)
Foreign policy
Hindu Nationalist Lobbyists on Capitol Hill Are Growing in Influence - Azad Essa, Jacobin (March 4, 2023)
How the US government sold the Peace Corps to the American public - Wendy Melillo, The Conversation (June 10, 2020)
The CIA's New Nord Stream Narrative Is Terrifying - Jeet Heer, The Nation (June 21, 2023)
Barack Obama Is A War Criminal - Prince Williams, Harvard Political Review (September 29, 2021)
Fuck the troops
"I thought they'd kill us": how the US navy devastated a tiny Puerto Rican island - Wilfred Chan, The Guardian (May 1, 2023)
Healthcare
CDC meeting, intended to mark covid progress, sees virus cases of its own - Dan Diamond, The Washington Post (April 28, 2023)
Moms for Liberty members have been linked to incidents of harassment and threats around the country - Olivia Little, Media Matters for America (April 11, 2023)
Broken Homes of the Drug War - David Helps, Protean Mag (February 25, 2022)
More People Die of Overdoses After Cops Seize Drugs: Study - Manisha Krishnan, Vice (June 15, 2023)
Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans - Yolonda Wilson, The Conversation (February 5, 2019)
Housing
Broken Homes of the Drug War - David Helps, Protean Mag (February 25, 2022)
San Diego passes homeless camping ban - The San Diego Union-Tribune (last updated June 17, 2023)
Immigration
ICE Continues to Abuse and Traumatize Under Biden. Immigrants Are Fighting Back. - Rebecca Talbot and Panagioti Tsolkas, Truthout (March 27, 2022)
LGBTQIA+
Alaska Says It's Now Legal "in Some Instances" to Discriminate Against LGBTQ Individuals - Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica (March 4, 2023)
US religious right at center of anti-LGBTQ+ message pushed around the world - Tom Perkins, The Guardian (July 9, 2023)
Moms for Liberty members have been linked to incidents of harassment and threats around the country - Olivia Little, Media Matters for America (April 11, 2023)
Montana Trans Rep. Zooey Zephyr Target of SWATting Attempt Hours After Girlfriend Was - Christopher Wiggins, The Advocate (May 3, 2023)
A sexy outfit can get you arrested in Phoenix - especially if you're Black or trans - Katya Schwenk, Phoenix New Times (Jully 14, 2023)
Texas judge who doesn't want to perform gay marriage ceremonies hopes web designer's Supreme Court case helps her fight - Rebecca Schneid, The Texas Tribune (July 12, 2023)
Racism
Black People in the US Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s - Antoinette Harrell and Justin Fornal, Vice (February 27, 2018)
Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till - Margalit Fox, The New York Times (April 27, 2023)
The Black Man's Dog: The Social Context of Breed Specific Legislation - Ann Linder, Animal Law Review (2018)
Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans - Yolonda Wilson, The Conversation (February 5, 2019)
The FBI's Persecution of Sidney Poitier - Jenn Dize, Rolling Stone (February 26, 2023)
How an FBI Informant Derailed Denver's BLM Movement - Kelly Weill, The Daily Beast (February 7, 2023)
How Angela Davis Ended Up on the FBI Most Wanted List - Antonio Mejías-Rentas, History (January 25, 2023)
Indian Severalty (the Dawes and Curtis Acts) and Black Indian Freedmen - Marshall Greenlaw, BlackPast (July 16, 2017)
Racism and the American Pit Bull - Yasmin Nair, Current Affairs (September 19, 2016)
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat - J. Sakai (1989)
A sexy outfit can get you arrested in Phoenix - especially if you're Black or trans - Katya Schwenk, Phoenix New Times (Jully 14, 2023)
The Slavery Detective of the South - Akil Gibbons, Vice (last accessed August 14, 2023)
Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America - James Allen and John Littlefield (2022)
State affirmative action bans helped White, Asian students, hurt others - Janice Kai Chen and Daniel Wolfe, The Washington Post (June 29, 2003)
Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans - Yolonda Wilson, The Conversation (February 5, 2019)
Why the Nazis Loved America - James Whitman, Time (March 21, 2017)
Race - The Power of an Illusion - Larry Adelman, PBS (April 2003)
Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till - Margalit Fox, The New York Times (April 27, 2023)
How the Term "White Trash" Reinforces White Supremacy - Lucas Lynch, Clippings (September 12, 2016)
Religious bigotry
"Unfriending" America: The Christian right is coming for the enemies of God - like you and me - Frederick Clarkson, The Nation (June 17, 2023)
Texas judge who doesn't want to perform gay marriage ceremonies hopes web designer's Supreme Court case helps her fight - Rebecca Schneid, The Texas Tribune (July 12, 2023)
US religious right at center of anti-LGBTQ+ message pushed around the world - Tom Perkins, The Guardian (July 9, 2023)
Hindu Nationalist Lobbyists on Capitol Hill Are Growing in Influence - Azad Essa, Jacobin (March 4, 2023)
Sexism
A sexy outfit can get you arrested in Phoenix - especially if you're Black or trans - Katya Schwenk, Phoenix New Times (Jully 14, 2023)