Justice

Before last weekend’s attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other presidents or candidates.

Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and writer.

Italian immigrants had no qualms about working and living alongside Black Americans, which made them targets for violence by white vigilantes in Louisiana.

The essay component of American college applications has a long history, but its purpose has changed over time.

When police raided Columbia University in May, commentators drew parallels to the 1968. But the school’s hostility to the antiwar movement traces back to 1917.

Systemic racism and capital punishment have long been intertwined in Virginia, the South, and the nation.

Despite an unwelcoming political climate and a dearth of LGBTQ+ protections, LGBTQ+ Southerners have persisted.

Even as the primary targets of immigration restrictionism have shifted, the consequences for immigrants remain profoundly shaped by the system created in 1924.

As the Supreme Court invents a law to negate all others, Chief Justice John Roberts now ranks just below Roger Taney.

The Freedom Schools curriculums developed in 1964 remain urgently needed, especially in our era of book bans and backlash.

An overlooked effect of the legislation, passed 60 years ago this week, was its powerful message of hope for Black Americans.

Activists including W. E .B. Du Bois in the United States and Lajpat Rai in India drew connections between Black American and Indian experiences of white rule.

America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

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.