Justice

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.

A narrative not of brain drain but of Black aspiration.

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.

As the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes to revive the Comstock Act, this seven-part forum explores the Act’s influence on American life.

In the midst of the Great Depression, one CIO union used the new administrative state to influence legislation on behalf of people considered outcasts.

Rouse reveals the hidden queer histories of suffragists like Alice Morgan Wright, who balanced activism with private, erased relationships.

Two Carvers and the fight for fair desegregation.

The court’s ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson involves highly selective readings of the historiography and a willful misrepresentation of history.

Henry Hale Bliss’ death presaged the battle between the 20th-century automobile lobby and walkers in U.S. cities.

President Ford’s pardon of Nixon is seen as a damaging precedent establishing presidential impunity. Now, the Supreme Court has affirmed that impunity.

Anthony Comstock, Victoria Woodhull, and what a battle from the 1870s means for 2024 and reproductive rights.

Many vignettes of sheriffs in action are dramatic and alarming. But how representative are they?

On the independence of the Muscogee Nation.

The originalist revolution will never be complete until we fully appreciate the natural law roots of the common law.