Justice

Eighty years ago, Americans embraced a new definition of their faith: “The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.”

The Supreme Court has invested the presidency with quasi-monarchial powers, repudiating the foundational principle of the rule of law.

To understand the racism of the drug war, we must look to the ways policymakers sought to protect white suburban youth.

Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward.”

The resistance inside prisons is an integral part of the struggle against white supremacy and for Black liberation beyond the walls.

The Supreme Court doesn't have the last word; the people do. How attorneys pushed back on the flawed 1987 McCleskey decision.

Almost 1,300 people say the state of New Hampshire failed to act to protect them from child abuse at youth facilities. Here’s what the allegations reveal.

Neoliberalism isn’t just a set of economic precepts—it’s also an architecture of laws passed to reinforce those precepts. Those laws must be changed.

Looking back on the environmentalist and anti-globalization movements of the 1990s.

The law is routinely blamed for a very real problem it had nothing to do with.

On the transformation of Mary Harris into Mother Jones.

Trump's seeming mixup of asylum-seeking refugees with patients in psychiatric institutions stems from a long rhetorical and political tradition.

Five decades after the desegregation effort, a civil-rights scholar questions its framing.

Tragedy seldom unifies Americans today.

The Supreme Court’s Republican majority has been quietly rolling back a longstanding consensus over cruel and unusual punishment.

A new graphic book unpacks the role that some White women played in suppressing voting rights for all — and the lessons today in the fight for universal ballot access.

Public schools are crucial infrastructures of the reproduction of social inequality and the US carceral state.

America is suffering from a severe housing shortage. A crucial tool may lie in the Constitution.

The story of American abolitionists who, after Emancipation, pivoted from antislavery campaigns to animal welfare advocacy.

In throwing up new roadblocks to the use of private money to redress racial and economic inequality, the Fearless Fund ruling is antihistorical.

Following the careers of a family of especially corrupt border control officials.

Black citizens fought for justice and were met with violence. They persevered.

“The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” upends long-held assumptions about trans people’s participation in sports.

Promoted as a social and economic savior, the US federal interstate highway system acted as a tool to promote racial injustices.

Transgender people's reactions to watching oral histories of the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history.

Compared to their 1960s forerunners, today’s young radicals seem far less interested in moving towards responsible adulthood.

How history shaped the modern U.S. Border Patrol agent.

Successes that came when presidents protected student protesters from outside meddling are worth remembering when students return to campus.

Waverly Woodson treated men for 30 hours on Omaha Beach, but his heroism became a casualty of entrenched racism, bureaucracy and Pentagon record-keeping.

On Ana Raquel Minian’s “In the Shadow of Liberty.”