Justice

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.

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.”

In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.

Border Patrol has abused its authority and mistreated migrants in countless ways. Yet its role as the frontline force in asylum exclusion has only grown.

The case of Robinson and Roberts v. Wheble provides legal historians with the most thorough documentation of an eighteenth-century trademark dispute.

On the TransAm Trucking case, legal reasoning, and the Fugitive Slave Act.

A new study of the national security apparatus finds the existing Bureau incompatible with republican government.

Abolitionist and writer John Swanson Jacobs on reclaiming liberty in a land of unfreedom.

Chinese immigration and the Immigration Act of 1924.

The City University of New York has long stood at once for meritocratic uplift and for civil disobedience.

When labor found a common cause — and enemy — with the abolition movement.

Fairly applying the rule of law to powerful politicians provides the stability that enables the U.S. to thrive politically and economically.

We can thank the postal service for establishing the foundations of the American tradition of communications confidentiality.

The rhetorically modest but functionally powerful ruling that ended segregation shouldn’t be misused to forestall other efforts at racial equality.

From Dow to now.

A new documentary chronicles efforts to keep rap lyrics from being used by prosecutors, combatting a long-standing trend of criminalizing this art form.

Reconsidering Earl Warren's place in U.S. history.

They’re invested in legal education, creating an originalist industrial complex with outsize influence.

A new book traces "the rise and fall of Pete Rose, and the last glory days of baseball."

With the Dow sit-ins of the 1960s, students drew attention to links between the campus, war, and imperialism.