Justice

With low police morale, limited peacekeeping ability and agitated immigrants, the city only needed a match to set it ablaze.

Extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land. Here's how 14 land-grant colleges took 8.2 million acres from 123 Indigenous nations.

In the fight over keeping Trump’s name on the ballot, the 2000 decision is a warning but not a precedent.

Before the end of Black History Month, we should remember some of the leaders who shaped the movement in the years before Roe v. Wade.

The African American perfectionists offered “faith” instead of “hope”—emphasizing the struggle to realize a vision of justice.

American Indian tribes have long used activism in their struggle for justice and the preservation of their lands and culture.

Three years later, amid another national election, the American public is still slow to understand the enormity of January 6, 2021.

In one of the most unique cases in the history of race riots, the African American businessperson sued his birthplace of Onancock, Virginia, in September 1910.

An Alabama man faces execution by nitrogen gas—the first U.S. execution by gas in a quarter-century, 100 years after the practice began.

As early at 1955, government reports indicated that DC’s emerging drug problem represented “a serious and tragic and expensive and ominous” development.

Four important court cases that have defined the landscape of women’s rights in the United States.

100 years ago, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Court more efficient and more powerful, marking a turning point whose effects are still being felt.

Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.

Because of the growth of the Prohibition state, police abuse fomented considerable discussions among police and lawyer associations, criminologists, and others.

A pair of lawsuits claim that courts were a strong check against federal agency power in early America, but history shows otherwise.

A reminder of how tricky it is to balance protecting transparency and freedom of association.

Republicans may claim otherwise, but the civil rights hero was no color-blind conservative.

Activists are often held up as exemplars of personal morality — but in every social struggle, ordinary people with complex lives rise up as leaders.

A Q&A with Matthew Lassiter about how liberal policymakers and white parents drove the escalation of the War on Drugs.

On the folly of relying on history to settle the debate over whether the Fourteenth Amendment should bar Trump from office.

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice.

As director of the FBI for decades, J. Edgar Hoover helped build a massive, professionalized national security state and hounded leftists out of public life.

With "Force and Freedom," Carter Jackson makes a stimulating and insightful debut which will have a major influence on abolition movement scholarship.

Even as the civil rights revolution brought significant gains to Black residents of cities, the story was very different in rural places.

Opposition to British policy was justified. Destroying 342 crates of tea worth nearly $2 million in today’s money wasn’t.

The Exorcist in 1973 and 2023.

America’s feminists felt confident when the Equal Rights Amendment was put before Congress 100 years ago this week. For a century, it’s failed to be enacted.

This new biopic about the socialist organizer Bayard Rustin stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out?

The law, passed in a frenzy after the First World War, is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?

There was really only one big difference between liberal drug warriors and conservative ones.