Justice

This is the first post in our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability focusing on the role of cities in fostering disability rights.

Chris Waltz was appalled. He felt Democrats were using the Sandy Hook tragedy to tell him he wasn’t responsible enough to own an AR-15.

The program was about education. But it was also about surveillance.

A journalistic view of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, work, and representation in American society.

The ambivalence many Black soldiers felt toward the U.S. in WWII was matched only by the ambivalence the U.S. showed toward principles on which WWII was fought.

A new book illuminates how Black Americans used property ownership, common law and other methods to assert their rights.

Cliff Sloan’s new book explains how the Franklin Roosevelt-shaped Court wrestled with individual rights as the nation fought to save itself and the world.

Critiques of the Thirteenth Amendment have roots in a long history of activists who understood the imprisonment of Black people as a type of slavery.

A pair of minor league clubs are asking the court to reverse the league’s lucrative 101-year-old antitrust exemption.

Gloria Steinem on the making of America's first feminist publication.

Robert D. Bullard reflects on the movement he helped to create.

Machine-graded bubble sheets are the defining feature of American schools. Today’s kindergartners may never have to fill one out.

Tocqueville understood how constitutional review, without meaningful checks, could enable judicial despotism.

When it comes to the left, the state uses RICO to criminalize radicals as thieves and separate them from a broader base of support.

Friedan was indispensable to second-wave feminism. And yet she was difficult to like.

What does the academy have against the mother of second-wave feminism?

A project to bring to light the stories of these victims’ lives and to highlight the patterns of racial terror perpetrated across the Northeast and Midwest.

How white-dominated racial power produces inter-ethnic group conflict.

The Christian right is pushing a slate of laws to stop a new, vague offense they have dubbed “abortion trafficking.”

The 50th anniversary of a groundbreaking work.

The basketball great is now better known for his tie-dye and enthusiastic sports commentary, but in the 1970s, he was a polarizing anti-government activist.

For decades, Philadelphia has struggled with poverty and gun violence. Social uplift organizations of the past have demonstrated that racial equity is the key.

Decades of Supreme Court decisions have converted qualified immunity from a commonsense rule into a powerful doctrine that deprives people injured by police misconduct of recourse.

Yelling about schools gets people riled up. The outcome can be unpredictable.

King offered Americans the choice between acting in accordance with the Constitution and resistance to change.  In many ways, we face the same choice today.

Police from as far away as Alabama were watching.

The Post interviewed March on Washington participants and voices from younger generations to tell the story of Aug. 28, 1963 and what it means now.

A new book explores the Army’s struggles with race relations in the decades of civil rights and Black Power.

Why women civil rights organizers marginalized at this event, and how that affects our collective memory of the struggle.

Conservatives love to bemoan their supposed status as oppressed minorities in universities. But the college campus has long been a key site for the Right.