Justice

Revisiting the lessons of Allan Bérubé’s 1990 history of queer solders during World War II.

Chief Justice John Roberts has now overseen 20 years of increasingly illiberal rulings by the Supreme Court.

Using the antiquated language of "vagrancy," Trump Administration officials are tapping into a long history of policing.

Redford’s legacy as an environmental activist and his 1992 film "Sneakers" reveal his foresight on climate, politics, and surveillance.

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.

International relations and foreign influence helped end legal segregation of Mexican American students in California after World War II.

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

Justice John Marshall’s ruling on Marbury v. Madison gave the courts the right to declare acts and laws of the other branches unconstitutional.

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.