Justice

Decades ago, labor protests, picketing and strikes often led to violent confrontations between activists and police, although that almost never happens today.

Prisoners not only supported the war effort in surprising ways during World War II, they fought and died in it.

The armed forces continue to grapple with integrating women into an institution historically designed for men.

A new biography of King emerges at a "critical juncture" for his legacy.

The fear that overtook us that day in 1988 was unfamiliar to most Americans. Now all too many know how it feels.

The members of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project scrutinize official records not only for what they reveal, but also for what they omit.

Library book bans are fueling national fights and a new Florida lawsuit. But only one case has come before the Supreme Court: Island Trees v. Pico.

The history of Sephardic Jews challenges our ideas about race in America.

The 1954 Supreme Court decision, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, declared that “separate but equal” has no place in education.

But the backstory was all-American.

For over 20 years, Dr. Albert Kligman experimented on incarcerated men at Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. Those who profited have yet to redress the harm.

Abortion rights in the US were won in the 1970s thanks to militant feminist groups. As those rights are repealed, the fight must return to the streets.

Native Americans demand accountability for a federal policy that aimed to erase Indigenous culture.

A revered Supreme Court ruling protected the robust debate vital to democracy—but made it harder to constrain misinformation. Can we do better?

We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.

A new biography of William Still show how the abolitionist documented the underground railroad as he helped people through it.

William O. Douglas was a strong advocate of conservation, but as a Supreme Court justice his involvement in such issues was often ethically questionable.

While academic freedom is foundational to American higher education today, it is a relatively recent development.

The 1982 attack against Vincent Chin redefined hate crimes and energized a push for today’s stronger legal protections.

The Lakota advocate helped thousands of domestic abuse survivors, Native and non-Native alike.

A new book makes the case for a more pragmatic anti-policing movement—one that seeks to build working-class solidarity across racial lines.

The Nixon administration saw methadone as a way to reduce crime rather than treat addiction.

In northern Louisiana, white supremacists slaughtered 150 African Americans, brutally thwarting their hopes for autonomy and self-governance.

Gardner's public service did not end with her lifelong advocacy for women's equality, but continued even after her death.

With the Comstock Act of 1873 coming back to life, reproductive care, LGBTQ protections, and a host of other civil rights are now at risk.

Anthony Comstock, the 19th-century scourge of art and sex, is suddenly relevant again thanks to Donald Trump’s worst judge.

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk rationalized his medication abortion opinion through a distorted reading of the long-dormant 1873 law.

Spiro Agnew was the progenitor of Trump’s politics. He also resigned from office and accepted a plea deal to avoid jail time.

The medication abortion decision by a federal judge in Texas focused on the rights of fetuses and the interests of doctors — not the rights of women.

Samuel Chase was the only Supreme Court justice to be impeached, after he openly campaigned for a president and told jurors who he thought was guilty.