Dallas shooting

Researchers use virtual reality to expose white Americans to systemic racism faced by people of colour

Momentum can’t be lost in the struggle to find a way past violence and racial tension

America isn’t falling apart. It’s never been safer to be black in America. But it’s still far more dangerous than being white.

City treasuries absorb the cost of lawsuits against police. If officers had to carry their own coverage, accountability would go way up — and violence would plummet.

Gun violence is killing 30,000 Americans a year. Why not treat it like smoking? Or heart disease?

Ken Nwadike Jr. is on a mission to repair race relations wherever they’re frayed. ‘Hugs heal,’ he says.

An 1866 law in the United States makes it very difficult to prosecute cops. A former assistant attorney general wants to change that.

Why the police sent in a robot to kill the Dallas sniper, in a move with no apparent precedence in U.S. policing