Justice

Efforts to target immigrants amid the 1992 L.A. Uprising point to what deportations might look like under Trump 2.0.

Supreme Court rulings on gun laws highlight the struggle to balance individual rights and public safety.

President Woodrow Wilson presided over the segregation of government workers, putting Black people behind screens and in cages in 1913.

Does the text mean what it plainly says?

Gender-segregated bathrooms tell a story about who is and who is not welcome in public life.

On the ongoing legal struggle for educational and racial equality across the United States.

Two new biographies enhance our knowledge of John Lewis, the late congressman and civil rights hero.

Today’s legislative efforts against the Palestine solidarity movement bear a striking resemblance to McCarthyism in both tactics and ideology.

The fleet provided activists with reliable transportation in hostile and often dangerous environments.

Anita Bryant’s legacy is not what she hoped—but her destructive message lives on.

On John Huggins, Angela Y. Davis, and the complex history of an oft-misunderstood political movement.

New York City’s renewed efforts to tackle homelessness and untreated mental illness is raising questions about civil liberties, safety and effective care.

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?

A newly released classified document shows that the National Security Agency knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy—and that the government executed her anyway.

History also changes because of strange, flawed, deeply human people doing unremarkable, tedious, and often boring work.

Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s reactionary activists and policymakers.

In 1984, only 18 American states denied that wives were the sexual property of their husbands.

Our new age of violence looks a lot like the Gilded Age.

Our country has a long history of admiring particular acts of violence.

The week between Christmas and the new year offered a rare opportunity for enslaved people to reclaim their humanity.

Two new books examine how colonial logic has long been embedded within US carceral systems.

Second-wave feminists meant business—but they had a lot of fun at it, too.

It's crucial to understand the real history behind claims that men are being marginalized.

If Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. gets confirmed, the Bureau could be politicized in ways that even its notorious first director would have rejected.

What is an apology from the President of the United States worth if reparations do not include cessation of settler colonial violence?

An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans.

Across the history of the U.S. abortion-rights movement, it has also been a matter of equality.

Am 1884 guide to vice and crime by the founder of the world’s largest private detective agency.

Since George Floyd’s murder, some white allies seek ways to fight racial inequality. Detroit’s 1960s "racially parallel organizing" offers insights.

Can speech be free when billionaires buy influence on campus?