Justice

Trump is relying on a 1798 law with a bad history.

Chief Justice John Roberts called it “obvious” that the infamous decision has “no place in law under the Constitution.” Recent events suggest otherwise.

The birth of the sanctuary movement some 45 years ago can teach us a lot about how to respond to today’s attacks on immigrants.

Ryan White changed perceptions of the disease in the United States.

Making a whole group of people this vulnerable does not just happen overnight.

Can a new book rescue Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre’s activism from irrelevance?

How a dispute with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor made the southern colonies’ embrace the radical cause.

Brandon Shimoda’s book about the memorialization of Japanese internment camps also speaks to the brutal system of migrant detention that continues to this day.

Dylan C. Penningroth challenges nearly every aspect of our traditional understanding of civil rights history.

On David Roediger’s “An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education.”

The “war on terror” led to a sweeping curtailment of immigrants’ rights that swept up green card holders as well as citizens.

The U.S. government repeatedly tried to deport the midcentury labor leader over his alleged ties to the Communist Party.

With controversy raging over the Alien Enemies Act, how should we understand the concept it invoked?

American authoritarians fear the uniquely American power of litigation.

Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents.

It’s time for another national teach-in movement.

The long tradition of the US government using border policy as a tool for political control, stretching back to Red Scare efforts to suppress left-wing dissent.

Linda Gordon argues that social movements are vital partnerships that, by challenging the status quo, are indispensable to the health of the nation.

A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.

There’s a long history of politicians targeting student protesters — and of campus leaders abetting those efforts.

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.

On the ongoing battle to desegregate schools across America throughout the 1960s.

Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight when students were targeted not because of any criminal activity but because of their speech.

“The lesson of the Tinker case is: Speak up. Stand up,” Mary Beth Tinker told us.

Newly declassified records reveal how paranoia about subversion in conservative states resulted in major constitutional violations.

The United States Postal Service is under federal scrutiny. It’s not the first time.

This defense misconstrues both the Constitution and the Supreme Court decisions relying on it.

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters.

The long battle against Title IX.

‘Operation Wetback’ and ‘Mexican Repatriation’ worked—until they didn’t.