Justice

The Supreme Court’s deference to FDR during World War II resulted in unjustifiable ethical breaches.

The story of how Ed Carnes became a judge offers crucial lessons for those who hope to unwind the policies of mass incarceration.

John Rankin, minister and fierce abolitionist, is a man worth remembering in our moment.

As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph many subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.

The malice test is the result of judicial activism and should be rejected by a Court that understands its task as the discovery, not the invention of law.

Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.

Before women could vote, they sold cookbooks like ‘The Woman Suffrage Cook Book’ to raise money for their cause.

A 1950s mass deportation campaign shows that abuse and dehumanization are intrinsic to immigrant detention.

Stephen Bright and Bryan Stevenson defended the abolition of capital punishment at a moment when political support for that movement reached its nadir.

A reading from 1920 on the fights that follow the 19th Amendment: “Now at last we can begin.”

The success of the movie ‘The Silent Scream,’ made by onetime abortionist Bernard Nathanson, continues to influence the pro-life narrative.

William Rehnquist went from a lonely dissenter to an institutionalist chief—and his opinions are all the rage among the court’s current conservatives.

How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.

Maine passed its first abortion statute in 1840, not long after the pardon of Dr. Call. Could there be a connection?

It’s time to care for the community—not cleanse it.

While the Citizens United case created major shifts in campaign contributions and spending, an earlier decision played a bigger role in campaign finance laws.

While letting justices serve during “good behavior” was designed to encourage impartiality, it now tends to promote the opposite effect.

Remembering the lead-up to the 1979 Greensboro Massacre.

A military consumed by identity politics threatens the integrity of the republic.

As the civil-rights era receded, his personal heroism loomed larger. But movement politics didn’t easily translate into party politics.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

How incarcerated people have become separated from American society.

A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”

Sakinah discovered Chicago’s Abortion Counseling Service, better known as Jane, because she wanted to help a friend. Then she became an essential part of it.

A new history revisits “the Trial of the Century” and its legacy in contemporary politics.

The uncompromising idealism of student protesters is rooted in social and economic isolation and detachment.

The push to build large police training facilities follows on a long history of armories as both symbols and manifestations of state power.

Convicting Vermont’s first governor.

Harris is taking a page from the playbook that has long helped women advance the quest for equality.

The systematic post-war displacement of communities of color.