Justice

“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.

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.

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.

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.

Lawmakers knew the Fourteenth Amendment would apply to the children of immigrants.

The Native activist spent nearly fifty years in prison for the killing of two F.B.I. agents. In January, Joe Biden commuted his sentence, and he went home.

In Skrmetti, the Court turned to a decades-old decision once thought to be consigned to history.

The progress we have seen toward civil rights for all Americans is inseparable from the history of classical liberalism.

How did the concept become the solution to society’s most deeply entrenched problems?

ICE officers are wearing masks to conceal their identities. The Ku Klux Klan also employed masks to avoid prosecution for its acts of racial violence.

St Louis organizer Bill Sentner led some of the most successful labor battles in Midwestern history by uniting workers across race and gender lines.

The rollback of LGBTQ rights echoes a deeply consequential chapter of American history: the Lavender Scare.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed.

We live in polarized times when freedom is threatened but this Juneteenth we should remind ourselves that we have overcome far worse.

When Jim Obergefell and his partner John Arthur decided to marry after more than 20 years together, their home state refused to recognize same-sex marriages.

Domestic deployments have generally been quite restrained. Can they still be?

Fifty years on, "The Monkey Wrench Gang" remains a problematic text for environmental activists, who are inclined to endorse its violent tendencies.

Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.