Justice

History suggests that uncivil discourse, while dangerous at times, has always been a defining feature of American democracy.

The FBI reads James Baldwin.

Fara Dabhoiwala’s case against free speech.

Firearm ownership meant something very different when the United States was founded.

A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.

A Black socialist magazine urges solidarity and action in 1919.

Historian Jane Smith understands her childhood differently after discovering that her father had been pushed out of his profession during the Red Scare.

One of the most famous episodes of school desegregation was actually just the starting point for a half-century struggle.

He started in the 1930s farmworker camps that inspired John Steinbeck’s novels and went on to pioneer methodical tactics that transformed American organizing.

The outcome to these three connected events remains ambivalent. Six decades later, many of the issues animating the moratorium remain as relevant as ever.

DC’s crackdown is just the latest in a long war on being poor and disabled in public.

“Horses were a part of the daily fabric of life for many enslaved Black people.”

The emotional roller coaster that changed the course of the Civil Rights Movement.

Churches, city officials and activists assisted migrants fleeing the violent conditions created by U.S. proxy wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala.

In 1966, police shot a young Puerto Rican man. What followed created a blueprint for a new kind of solidarity.

On freedom, servitude, and writing a novel set in the seventeenth century.

New details of drug dealing and murder at North Carolina base, the command center for U.S. Special Forces.

David Blight's report "Yale and Slavery" considers institutional accountability in the context of a world marked by systemic violence and inequality.

The two-month patrol stopped “suspicious” individuals from crossing into California. But its execution was uneven, and the initiative proved controversial.

He made his name in Chicago investigating race riots, solving crimes, and exposing corruption. But America’s first Black private eye was hiding his own secrets.

The August 1973 contretemps over President Nixon's bombing of Cambodia was a turning point in how the Supreme Court handles emergency applications.

Thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel. They are taking part in a tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism.

The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.

This opinion is a milestone in the rule of law and is regularly cited by conservative and liberal justices alike.

Attempts to end birthright citizenship thwart an originalist interpretation of the Constitution.

The torturers have been revising, the gestapos have been busy, and the prisons have been full for generations.

Two stories from the 19th century about government records being falsified to foment distrust of nonwhite Americans.

This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

Los Angeles has a history of Latinx protest; one that is often marred by police violence.

Labor activist Emma Tenayuca led Mexican American women in San Antonio’s legendary pecan shellers’ strike. Today, we can learn from her example.