David Helps is a postdoctoral scholar in the Van Hunnick History Department and the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. His writing on police, cities, and international affairs has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Monthly Review, among other outlets.
Donald Trump is seen in profile as he walks in front of a crowd of reporters with cameras and microphones poised. Trump wears a navy blue suit and red tie; the room behind him is large and decorated ornately with carved white walls and gold curtains.
Demonstrators with CASA in Action and Service Employees International Union 32BJ march against the Trump administration’s immigration policies in Washington on May 1, 2017.
Law enforcement officials in riot gear force people protesting the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. off a street in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on April 28.