Justice

How much truth and healing can forensic tech really bring? On the sites of Native American tragedies, Marsha Small has made it her life’s mission to find out.

How a mob statute metastasized.

Today, historical figures are held in deep suspicion, but refusing to acknowledge the heroes of the past diminishes our own sense of what is possible.

And justified the most extreme responses.

The War on Poverty comes to life in a new book that explores how welfare mothers in Las Vegas built an organizing juggernaut that transformed lives.

An opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas exposed the limits of originalism.

Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was the fateful moment that the wave of hope finally broke for Black America.

Uncovering a tradition of African American radicalism that was—and is—a crucial part of the American left’s history.

Starbucks and Anheuser-Busch are the latest corporate targets of tactics honed by segregationists post–Brown v. Board.

William Magear “Boss” Tweed, who became a political force in New York as leader of the “Tweed Ring,” was found guilty in 1873 of 102 separate crimes.

It’s about more than immigration.

Experts see parallels between modern restrictions on drag shows and the cross-dressing laws that led police to arrest Babe Bean over 120 years ago in California.

Lessons on race-neutral admissions from California.

A minor incident gets distorted in order to provide a desired racial story.

On Philip Dray’s “A Lynching at Port Jervis.”

His works underpins the Dobbs decision. His legacy matters enormously to what's next for constitutional law.

The conservative justice is on course for an originalist fight with Neil Gorsuch.

While we may never know the full truth, we owe it to those harmed and killed to illuminate their stories.

Suspected of orchestrating the Lincoln assassination, the South’s most prominent Jew escaped to London to start a new life as a high-powered lawyer.

Ted Kaczynski’s criticisms of environmental destruction and out-of-control technology were incisive, but his terroristic methods had no chance of solving those problems.

The story of Mabel Ping‑Hua Lee.

The Brown v. Board of Education ruling opened the floodgates for busing across the country, but what happened when the buses stopped rolling?

A summary of how white migration out of the postbellum South entrenched Confederate culture across the U.S. during postwar reconciliation.

Twenty years ago, Sandra Day O'Connor's deleted draft opinion rejected favoring white applicants over Asian Americans. Why did Clarence Thomas adopt it?

If judges are going to use history as their guide, they should probably try to get the history right.

The presence of Federalist judges frustrated Thomas Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican Party, bring justice Samuel Chase under fire.

Once considered a relic of moral panics past, the 1873 law criminalized sending "obscene, lewd or lascivious" materials through the mail.

A new lawsuit builds on 50 years of history in environmental activism.

The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.